In hottest summer and coldest winter, I was kept almost naked—no shoes, no stockings, no jacket, no trousers, nothing on but a coarse tow linen shirt, reaching only to my knees.
From his autobiography, this passage vividly describes the extreme physical deprivation he endured as a child slave.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.