It seemed to me (and this shows the good understanding between the slaveholders and their allies) that every body we met knew the cause of our arrest, and were out, awaiting our passing by, to feast their vindictive eyes on our misery and to gloat over our ruin.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes the public's reaction to his and his friends' arrest for attempting to escape slavery.
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