Frederick Douglass: “Freeland, I am indebted to the genial temper and ardent friendship of my brother slaves.”

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.