"Lord, God-a-mighty, you done told us in your Word to seek and we shall find; knock and the door be open; ask and it shall be given when your love come twinklin down. And Lord, tonight we is a-seekin." Brother Ezekiel, Chapter 1, Page 12

"As a Quaker, his religious views were regarded as far too independent for the southern community but his abolitionist views were hated even more. He and old Bob Qualls had frequently been suspected of helping slaves escape to freedom or even daring to buy slaves on the auction block and, after purchasing them, giving them their freedom." Chapter 8, Page 91

"But to Vyry there was no mystery. This child was just another slave who had been kicked around like a dog all his life, from one plantation to another, from pillar to post, until now he acted more like a dumb, driven animal than a human...