It was a greater luxury than slavery could afford, to allow a black slave-mother a horse or a mule, upon which to travel twenty-four miles, when she could walk the distance.
Douglass illustrates the harsh conditions of slavery by noting the denial of even simple transportation for a slave mother to visit her child.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.