If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.