Machinery may continue to do, as it has done, much of the work of the North, but the work of the South requires bone, sinew, and muscle of the strongest and most enduring kind for its performance.
In his autobiography, Douglass contrasts the industrial labor of the North with the physically demanding labor required in the South.
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I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.