… memoir, “Autobiography of Sand: Relief Map of A Drifting Mind.” Arts & HumanitiesReadingspoetry sarah.harford@yale.edu … April 14, 2025 Gabeba Baderoon https://english.yale.edu/event/literature-social-justice-gabeba-baderoon …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… with [him] what he pleases. God has given to the slave a mind; but that mind may be improved only as the slave owner may choose. The … commands were absolute; if he demands the slave to curse God he must do so, as he is not a responsible …
… whole physical power to bear against the slave if such an event should arise. (Cries of “Shame!”) The slave has no … would cross Mason and Dixon’s line, and turn round and curse his master from the other side. Now what is this system … education—the light of the Gospel shut out from the dark mind of the bondman—and he forbidden by law to learn to read. …