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“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance to exercise a little brief authority, and show their subserviency to the slaveholders; not reflecting that the power which trampled on the colored people also kept themselves in poverty, ignorance and moral degradation.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

“I passed nearly a year in the family of Isaac and Amy Post, practical believers in the Christian doctrine of human brotherhood. They measured a man's worth by his character, not by his complexion.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My friends,' said he, 'it affords me great happiness to have an opportunity of speaking to you again. For two years I have been striving to do something for the colored people of my own parish; but nothing is yet accomplished. I have not even preached a sermon to them. Try to live according to the word of God, my friends. Your skin is darker than mine; but God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins." This was strange doctrine from a southern pulpit. It was very offensive to slaveholders.”

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Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself