Grace Hunt

“The desire to read the Bible for themselves - the Bible the slaveholders had so long misrepresented to them- motivated a good many former slaves to seek education.
For Northern teachers, whether white or black, education had a moral purpose. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, they believed schools ought to instill habits of thrift, honesty, punctuality, temperance, and discipline to the ex-slaves, who seemed to be lax about these moral virtues. The former slaves, however, insisted God was not going to punish them for every little sin. For them the essence of religion was not in observing rules and regulations, but in experiencing the power of God's grace within their hearts.”
― Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans

“Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.”
― Aaron, The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History [1845]

“The former slaves preferred to focus on feeling the power of God's loves, in the tradition of the invisible institution of their parents and grandparents.”
― Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans

“It’s like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all’s well. You get off it and the next thing you know you’re lost if you’re not lucky. And then someone has to send out a searching party.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary