Frederick Douglass: “Cookman was, that whenever he met slaveholders he labored faithfully with them, as a religious duty, to induce them to…”

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.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

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.