Grace Hunt

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

“Because life is all about cycles.
And life, with its deadly surprises and unassuming horrors, with its mysteries and miseries, just goes on and on and”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“For people who had been prohibited from learning to read and write as slaves, reading offered tangible proof that they were really free.”
― Albert J. Raboteau, Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans

“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