The case, sometimes, to our excited visions, stood thus: At every gate through which we had to pass, we saw a watchman; at every ferry, a guard; on every bridge, a sentinel; and in every wood, a patrol or slave-hunter.
In his autobiography, Douglass vividly portrays the overwhelming sense of constant surveillance and danger that enslaved people perceived during their attempts to escape.
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