However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters’ children. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. John Sergeant Wise Read Quote
