Today is Sunday Black Marriage Day and I blogged about and learned something that is the most beautiful thing I've ever read as of today. This is the account of male slaves on the subject of marriage" >> As John Anderson explained: "I did not want to marry a girl belonging to my own place, because I knew I could not bear to see her ill-treated." Moses Grandy agreed he wrote: "no colored man wishes to live at the house where his wife lives, for he has to endure the continual misery of seeing her flogged and abused without daring to say a word in her defence." As Henry Bibb pointed out: "If my wife must be exposed to the insults and licentious passions of wicked slave-drivers and overseers. Heaven forbid that I should be compelled to witness the sight
I was very touched by the statements of these MEN..
Today is Sunday Black Marriage Day and I blogged about and learned something that is the most beautiful thing I've ever read as of today. This is the account of male slaves on the subject of marriage"
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As John Anderson explained: "I did not want to marry a girl belonging to my own place, because I knew I could not bear to see her ill-treated." Moses Grandy agreed he wrote: "no colored man wishes to live at the house where his wife lives, for he has to endure the continual misery of seeing her flogged and abused without daring to say a word in her defence." As Henry Bibb pointed out: "If my wife must be exposed to the insults and licentious passions of wicked slave-drivers and overseers. Heaven forbid that I should be compelled to witness the sight
I was very touched by the statements of these MEN..