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John Sergeant Wise

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters’ children.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

– John Sergeant Wise

John Sergeant Wise

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

– John Sergeant Wise

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