Frederick Douglass: “A man that does not recognize and approve for himself the rights and privileges contended for, in behalf of the American…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.