I have met many good religious colored people at the south, who were under the delusion that God required them to submit to slavery and to wear their chains with meekness and humility.
In his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the religious beliefs of some enslaved people who were taught to accept their bondage.
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It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.