Frederick Douglass: “Is it not evil, only evil, and that continually?”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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.

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.