I Had As Well Be Killed Running

Slaves Were Expected To Sing As Well As To Work. A Silent Slave Was Not Liked, Either By Masters Or Overseers.

These Dear Souls Came Not To Sabbath School Because It Was Popular To Do So, Nor Did I Teach Them Because It Was Reputable To Be Thus Engaged. Every Moment They Spent In That School, They Were Liable To Be Taken Up, And Given Thirty-nine Lashes. They Came Because They Wished To Learn. Their Minds Had Been Starved By Their Cruel Masters. They Had Been Shut Up In Mental Darkness. I Taught Them, Because It Was The Delight Of My Soul To Be Doing Something That Looked Like The Bettering The Condition Of My Race

A Great Man, Tender Of Heart, Strong Of Nerve, Boundless Patience And Broadest Sympathy, With No Motive Apart From His Country.

Abolish Slavery Tomorrow, And Not A Sentence Or Syllable Of The Constitution Need Be Altered. It Was Purposely So Framed As To Give No Claim, No Sanction To The Claim, Of Property In Man. If In Its Origin Slavery Had Any Relation To The Government, It Was Only As The Scaffolding To The Magnificent Structure, To Be Removed As Soon As The Building Was Completed.

The Thing Worse Than Rebellion Is The Thing That Causes Rebellion.