Earl Felton

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    “Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.”
    —Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)