The simple fact is this: prejudice and proscription in free society during the time of slavery kept the white people away from the Negroes, so that they knew, and still know, but little of colored people; and the slaveholder, though knowing better, found it in his interest to keep his knowledge to himself.


Speech before the Paris Anti-Slavery Conference [August, 1867]

J. Sella Martin Quotes

The simple fact is this: prejudice and proscription in free society during the time of slavery kept the white people away from the Negroes, so that...

The simple fact is this: prejudice and proscription in free society during the time of slavery kept the white people away from the Negroes, so that...

The simple fact is this: prejudice and proscription in free society during the time of slavery kept the white people away from the Negroes, so that...

The simple fact is this: prejudice and proscription in free society during the time of slavery kept the white people away from the Negroes, so that...