Let me make this statement with which you may or may not agree: In my opinion, there cannot be found in the civilized or uncivilized world ten millions of Negroes whose economic, educational, moral and religious life is so advanced as that of the ten millions of Negroes within the United States.
— from The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development by Booker T. Washington
The lieutenant and his black attendant set off the following morning and reached London in safety, arriving just in time to stop Mr Hanson from going down to Triton Cottage.
— from Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trade by William Henry Giles Kingston
Poor man, with his mitre and rochets left in such a state!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
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