Spinning Jenny Quotes

“He’d had a conceit, that he was protecting Mal and Jenny, keeping them away from cruel hands. But he sees more clearly now: there’s no protection in slavery. Not for them, and not for him, either.”
― Sylvia Ann McLain, Spinning Jenny

“He’ll write to Euphonia, tell her how he’s doing. And for all he knows, he might get a letter back from her,”
― Sylvia Ann McLain, Spinning Jenny

“He’ll be all right,” Cornelius says. “I’ll get Miss Hattie”
― Sylvia Ann McLain, Spinning Jenny

“Cornelius smiles, too polite to say what he’s”
― Sylvia Ann McLain, Spinning Jenny

“That was a young man’s dream, and Stephanie, whom he loved, and Hattie, whom he didn’t, both had a part in it. He’d been made a widower twice over, and fathered a child, and kept and freed slaves. And now he’s a fugitive. In Texas he’ll get a place to live and hire himself out to work. He has money --nearly two thousand dollars in his pocket, profits from the cotton crop this year and in years past.”
― Sylvia Ann McLain, Spinning Jenny