Josiah Henson Quote

On Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe:

The truth has never been half-told; the story would be too horrible to hear. I could fill this book with cases that have come under my own experience and observation, by which I could prove that the slaveholder could and did break every one of the ten commandments with impunity.

Uncle Tom's Story of His Life (1876), ch. 25

The truth has never been half-told; the story would be too horrible to hear. I could fill this book with cases that have come under my own experience ...

The truth has never been half-told; the story would be too horrible to hear. I could fill this book with cases that have come under my own experience ...

The truth has never been half-told; the story would be too horrible to hear. I could fill this book with cases that have come under my own experience ...

The truth has never been half-told; the story would be too horrible to hear. I could fill this book with cases that have come under my own experience ...