Frederick Douglass: “I was anxious to observe the bearing of the colored members, and the result was most humiliating.”

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

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.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.