Frederick Douglass: “Yet despite of this destitution there were many men and women among the slaves who were true and faithful to each other…”

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.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.