Top Highlights

• Thirteen years ago, I came to your door, a weary fugitive from chains and stripes. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was hungry, and you fed me. Naked was I, and you clothed me. Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me. You bestowed upon me your own.
• What I have admired, and marvelled at, in your Narrative, is the simplicity and calmness with which you describe scenes and actions which might well "move the very stones to rise and mutiny" against the National Institution which makes them possible.
• This little book is a voice from the prison-house, unfolding the deeds of darkness which are there perpetrated.
• Few persons have had greater facilities for becoming acquainted with slavery, in all its horrible aspects, than William W. Brown.
• The American Union sanctions the deed. The Constitution shields the criminals. American religion sanctifies the crime.