Without money, without friends, without knowledge, and only gaining enough by daily toil to keep them above the starvation point, where they are, how can such a people rise and cross the continent?
Douglass highlights the dire circumstances faced by marginalized people and the challenges they encounter in seeking better opportunities.
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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.