Elizabeth Keckley Quote

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.


Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house (ed. 1868)


I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.