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all things heaven sent ain't meant to be enjoyed in this world. [...]For the Captain took that news across the jibs and brung hisself back to Harpers Ferry knowing he was done in. He knowed he was gonna lose fighting for the Negro, on account of the Negro, and he brung hisself to it anyway, for he trusted in the Lord's word. That's strong stuff. I felt God in my heart for the first time at that moment.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

It ain't a clean proposition when you you declare a war on something, and not somebody

Indeed. Compare "war on terrorism" and "war on Iraq".

I weren't hungry as a slave

Indeed, the risk of self-care: you can provide for yourself, or you can not. Your master can provide for you, or your master can sell your children. You can have someone else care for you and yours, and accept your vulnerability under their power, or you can care for yourself, but accept your occasional failures.

pixilated

Er. I'm not sure this word was used in this manner in those days.... Pixies, yes, but pixels? Also, "accidentally on purpose" earlier... Just how old is that expression?

Harlot Shackleford

commingle with anyone in the fleshly ways of nature without being married

ROFLMAO

The time they ask directly, and the Black slave tells them directly: its not just because they're white, its not generally because they're masters, but because they specifically sold her children.

And in that conversation, he sees her not as Black, not as slave, not as woman, but as mom, as parent - as he himself is a father. He sees her as same to himself. And he can't deal, and has the freedom to leave.

Only one colored known to all of them

[the Old Man] reckoned every colored wanted to fight for his freedom. It never occurred to him that they would feel any other way.