With a moderate degree of intelligent leadership among the laboring class of the South, properly handling the justice of their cause, and wisely using the exodus example, they can easily exact better terms for their labor than ever before.
From his autobiography, suggesting a strategy for Black laborers in the South to improve their working conditions.
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The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.