Frederick Douglass: “My sufferings, as I remember them now, seem like a dream rather than a stern reality.”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.