5/24/2023 0 Comments One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva― Solomon Northup, quote from Twelve Years a SlaveīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Chastened and subdued in spirit by the sufferings I have borne, and thankful to that good Being through whose mercy I have been restored to happiness and liberty, I hope henceforward to lead an upright though lowly life, and rest at last in the church yard where my father sleeps.” I doubt not hundreds have been as unfortunate as myself that hundreds of free citizens have been kidnapped and sold into slavery, and are at this moment wearing out their lives on plantations in Texas and Louisiana. If I have failed in anything, it has been in presenting to the reader too prominently the bright side of the picture. Those who read this book may form their own opinions of the "peculiar institution." What it may be in other States, I do not profess to know what it is in the region of Red River, is truly and faithfully delineated in these pages. I have no comments to make upon the subject of Slavery.
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