Since I have been editing and publishing a journal devoted to the cause of liberty and progress, I have had my mind more directed to the condition and circumstances of the free colored people than when I was the agent of an abolition society.
Douglass discusses his evolving focus on the plight of free Black individuals through his journalistic work.
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Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
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