“We must be extremely wary of projecting twenty-first century moral sensibilities back into the eighteenth century” (Morgan, GW article, 414).
“Sarah was no longer enslaved, but she was not free” (Menschel, 220).
“I wonder sometimes why I was not more contented than I was, and then I wonder why I was as contented as I was” (James Mars in Menschel, 221).