“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.” KnowsWorldHomeHorrorEnjoyedDesertContemptSweetnessHumiliationDegradationTranquil Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.” HomeAmericaIndividualSinRaceFamilyHorrorDestructionSlaveryInstinctShelterSavagesRelentlessCardinalsRace In America Author:Fannie Barrier Williams