An American Slave

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“If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

“... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)