Frederick Douglass: “A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood.”

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.