Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit Quotes

“A friend showed me the letters, and how to spell words of three letters. Then I continued, until I got so as to read the Bible—the great book of God—the source of all knowledge.”
― Peter Randolph, Sketches of Slave Life and From and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit

“The whites beat the free colored people there, and they dare not raise their hands, lest they should be mobbed. Females were not safe there an instant; nothing could protect them from the violence of those drunken desperados.”
― Peter Randolph, Sketches of Slave Life and From and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit