Escaped Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words escaped and/or slaves:

“an escaped note of
almost unbearable
satisfaction, a great
bough or beam
unaware it had
spoken.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The haughty and imperious part of a man develops rapidly on one of these lonely sugar plantations, where the owner rarely meets with anyone except his slaves and minions.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)