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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.