Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Bio: Moses Roper was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the major early books about life as a slave in the United States, Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery.
