They have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into waves for freedom-starved for… — Lydia Maria Child
They have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!
An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans · 1833
★ 1.9On American slaves.
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Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.