Moses Roper Quotes

3 Sourced Quotes

Just before we started, my grandmother came to bid me farewell; I gave her my hand as well as I could, and she having given me two or three presents, we parted. I had felt enough, far too much for the weak state I was in; but how shall I describe my feelings upon parting with the last relative I ever saw? The reader must judge by what would be his own feelings under similar circumstances.

Moses Roper

When the slave runs away, the master always adopts a more rigorous system of flogging. Having determined from my youth to gain my freedom, I made several attempts, was caught and got a severe flogging of one hundred lashes each time.

Moses Roper

My resembling my father so very much, and being whiter than the other slaves, caused me to be soon sold to what they call a Negro trader, who took me to the southern states of America, several hundred miles from my mother. As well as I can recollect, I was then about six years old.

Moses Roper

Moses Roper

Moses Roper

Born: 1815

Died: April 15, 1891 (aged 76)

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.

Moses Roper on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

American Author Quotes

19th-century Author Quotes