"'I tremble for my country, when I recollect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no attribute that can take sides with us in such a struggle.'
"But sad to say, Jefferson is not the only statesman who has spoken high sounding words in favor of freedom, and then left his own children to die slaves."
P.143, "Clotel; or the President's Daughter," WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, CLOTEL AND OTHER WRITINGS, (Library of America, NY: 2014)
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Thomas Jefferson's hypocrisy
"'I tremble for my country, when I recollect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever. The Almighty has no attribute that can take sides with us in such a struggle.'
"But sad to say, Jefferson is not the only statesman who has spoken high sounding words in favor of freedom, and then left his own children to die slaves."
P.143, "Clotel; or the President's Daughter," WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, CLOTEL AND OTHER WRITINGS, (Library of America, NY: 2014)