Harveysburg Free Black

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or black:

    A counterfeiting law-factory, standing half in a slave land and half in a free! What kind of laws for free men can you expect from that?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)