I had long since made up my mind that I would not trust myself in the hands of any man, white or colored. The slave is brought up to look upon every white man as an enemy to him and his race; and twenty-one years in slavery had taught me that there were traitors, even among colored people.


Narrative of William W Brown (1847), ch. 13

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I had long since made up my mind that I would not trust myself in the hands of any man, white or colored. The slave is brought up to look upon every...

I had long since made up my mind that I would not trust myself in the hands of any man, white or colored. The slave is brought up to look upon every...

I had long since made up my mind that I would not trust myself in the hands of any man, white or colored. The slave is brought up to look upon every...

I had long since made up my mind that I would not trust myself in the hands of any man, white or colored. The slave is brought up to look upon every...