I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.


Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave: And Plantation Life in the Antebellum South (ed. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2007)

Solomon Northup Quotes

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.