Joyce Amen’s Reviews > The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era > Status Update

"We walked past the Court-House, which is in now lawlessly converted into a prison, and filled with soldiers, some of whom were looking from the windows, with an air of insolent authority which made my blood boil, while I felt the strongest contempt for their cowardice and servility."

"Words cannot express all that I feel; all that is felt by the friends of Freedom, when thinking of this great obstacle to the removal of slavery from our land. Alas! that it should be so, [...]"

"We are thy sisters, God has truly said,
That of one blood the nations he has made,
O, Christian woman! in a Christian land,
Canst thou unblushing read this great command?
Suffer the wrongs which wring our inmost heart,
To draw one throb of pity on thy part!
Our skins may differ, but from thee we claim
A sister's privilege and a sister's name." — Sarah Forten from Lottie Forten's Journal