Frederick Douglass: “Thus viewed it was the one act which broke the gloomy spell that bound the nation in the bonds of servile, unnatural…”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.