The Destiny Of The Colored American ...

From My Earliest Recollection, I Date The Entertainment Of A Deep Conviction That Slavery Would Not Always Be Able To Hold Me Within Its Foul Embrace; And In The Darkest Hours Of My Career In Slavery, This Living Word Of Faith And Spirit Of Hope Departed Not From Me, But Remained Like Ministering Angels To Cheer Me Through The Gloom. This Good Spirit Was From God, And To Him I Offer Thanksgiving And Praise.

Every Tone Was A Testimony Against Slavery, And A Prayer To God For Deliverance From Chains.

I Assert Most Unhesitatingly, That The Religion Of The South Is A Mere Covering For The Most Horrid Crimes—a Justifier Of The Most Appalling Barbarity…a Shelter Under…which The Darkest, Foulest, Grossest, And Most Infernal Deeds Of Slaveholders Find The Strongest Protection

The Man Who Will Get Up Will Be Helped Up; And The Man Who Will Not Get Up Will Be Allowed To Stay Down.

Going To Live At Baltimore Laid The Foundation, And Opened The Gateway, To All My Subsequent Prosperity.