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!

Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans

On American slaves.

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.