Lynn Austin Quotes

I Wanted To Weep. Everywhere I Went, It Seemed That People Wanted To Discuss Slavery, Yet They Talked About It As If It Was An Abstract Concept. It Wasn't Abstract To Me. Slaves Were Real-life People With Individual Faces And Souls. I Knew Some Of Those Faces, Loved Some Of Those Souls, And It Broke My Heart To Be Reminded Of The Truth About Them - That Josiah And Tessie Weren't Allowed To Be Man And Wife; That Grady Had Been Torn Without Warning From His Mother's Arms; That Eli Could Be Whipped For Secretly Preaching About Jesus In The Pine Grove Or Killed For Knowing How To Read.

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