Frederick Douglass: “The Negro can have nothing, can keep nothing, can sell nothing, without the consent of the landlord.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.