A great many times have we, poor creatures, been severely pinched with hunger, when meat and bread have been moulding under the lock, while the key was in the pocket of our mistress.
Douglass vividly describes the cruel irony of enslaved people suffering from hunger while food was locked away by their mistress.
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Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.