Rosabower: A Collection of Essays and Miscellanies (1854)

We will never know anything at all about slavery. They think it is eternal bondage only. They have no conception of the depth of degradation involved in that word SLAVERY. If they had, they would never erase it from our minds. We lived because their spirit was STRONG. So strong that it continues to walk the world with heavy feet, a ghost to a generation of political convictions and any real heroes we come to speak of.