Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.