Americus Moor, or, Life among the American freedmen 1886

The deeds I am about to relate happened in a section of the Southern States. It is well known that he whose character I purpose to show receives but little of the world's esteem, but it is also known, equally as well, that the world too often withholds its respect from its own deserving interest. To attain a knowledge of man we are to study him in every condition of life. There is one common nature that pervades all the species of mankind ; surroundings, training, and habit will surely produce differences among them ; but yet they, of whatever land or race, are subjected to certain laws, which to know is but to know themselves and their Maker.