Brittany

“Besides, I have determined that”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“No; eternal slavery rather than be regarded with distrust by those whose respect I esteemed.”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

“An act may be wrong, but unless the ruling power recognizes the wrong, it is useless to hope for a correction of it.”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House

“What a sublime picture was this! A ruler of a mighty nation going to the pages of the Bible with simple Christian earnestness for comfort and courage, and finding both in the darkest hours of a nation’s calamity. Ponder it, O ye scoffers at God’s Holy Word, and then hang your heads for very shame!”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House