Black History
“I had rather have a day free, than a week of life in slavery: I think slavery is the worst evil that ever was … Sometimes I did not get enough to eat, nor have clothes enough to make me comfortable … I never had any bed … The other hands were not so well used, the truth is, I was rather ahead of them. They used to get whipped with hickories or a club: I never had any severe punishment.”
-Benedict Duncan circa 1856
