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currently tryna tidy up my goodreads… it’s been a while since i took interested in this app !

“On the shores of our free states are emerging the poor, shattered, broken remnants of families,—men and women, escaped, by miraculous providences from the surges of slavery,—feeble in knowledge, and, in many cases, infirm in moral constitution, from a system which confounds and confuses every principle of Christianity and morality.”

“Have you not, in your own secret souls, in your own private conversings, felt that there are woes and evils, in this accursed system, far beyond what are here shadowed, or can be shadowed? Can it be otherwise? Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot?”

pious piety slavery emancipation real life anecdotes oh wow this is such a powerful read… the fact that i was kinda somewhat dreading to read this in the beginning given how long and winding it was… sorry miss stowe i was not familiar with your game!

very religious, very christian, heavily populated and referenced in the bible and i’m not a christian or anything to see how righteous and applicable these details are but morally considering i love how these themes played out in the book: a righteous man standing against injustice and hatred inspiring all, and karma is real, and freedom is always achievable, and life is full of surprises!