Carolina QuotesI saw a paragraph, a few years since, in a South Carolina paper, which, speaking of the barbarity of the Turks, it said: “The Turks are the most barbarous people in the world—they treat the Greeks more like brutes than human beings.” And in the same paper was an advertisement, which said: “Eight well built Virginia and Maryland Negro fellows and four wenches will positively be sold this day, to the highest bidder!”
David Walker Carolinian
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p. 15
- work
- Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1830)
- year
- 1830
- locator
- p. 15
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