Henry Box Brown Quotes

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I entered the world a slave—in the midst of a country whose most honoured writings declare that all men have a right to liberty.

Henry Box Brown

I felt that life had joys worth living for if I could only be allowed to enjoy them, but my heart was filled with deep anguish from the awful calamity, which I was thus obliged to contemplate, as not only a possible but a highly probable occurrence.

Henry Box Brown