Archibald Henry Grimké: “The white man enjoys a monopoly of the first and the Negro gets the lion's share of the second.”

Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

During those dark years the blacks were much more sinned against than sinning.