Abraham Lincoln

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people, to the idea of an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races; and Judge Douglas evidently is basing his chief hope, upon the chances of being able to appropriate the benefit of to disgust to himself.

This particular part which comes from the very first paragraph.  How can they find a disgust in the mixing of black and whites when it is the whites that are raping their slaves.  If they were content with the wife and children that they already had it would not be not mixture of the races.  It came from the fact that they had the power and control these peoples lives that they did whatever they wanted to them. It was cool for them to rape the female slaves that allowed them to have an affair and it not really be known that they went outside they home cause they slave knew better than to talk about it cause that could me their death.

Contraband OF War

As Union armies moved into the South, thousands of slaves fled to their camps. Although some Union officers sent them back to their masters, others allowed them to remain with their troops, using them as a work force and dubbing them "contraband of war."
Of this sketch, Waud, who photographed the "contrabands" and then prepared the drawing for the newspaper, wrote:

There is something very touching in seeing these poor people coming into camp--giving up all the little ties that cluster about home, such as it is in slavery, and trustfully throwing themselves on the mercy of the Yankees, in the hope of getting permission to own themselves and keep their children from the auction-block. This party evidently comprises a whole family from some farm . . . .

To Union Lines and Freedom

Photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, this is an image of African Americans seeking to gain freedom behind Union lines. It was taken in the main eastern theater of the war during the second battle of Bull Run in 1862.

These two selections just show that the slaves put their trust into any and everyone with hopes that they would help or rescue them to freedom.  They felt that it could not be no worst than where they were at already.  Some got lucky and some did not. Freedom was what they were seeking with hopes of the Unions would give that to them.  It was not an easy road cause as you read some of the Unions sent them back to there masters ans some of the Unions used for their own benefits.