He is one of the most far-sighted and practical men I ever met with.

He taught me by familiar conversations, illustrating his themes by diagrams on the slate, so that I caught his ideas with ease and rapidity.
I now began to see, for the first time, the extent of the mischief slavery had done to me.

Twenty-one years of my life were gone, never again to return, and I was as profoundly ignorant, comparatively, as a child five years old.

This was painful, annoying, and humiliating in the extreme.

Up to this time, I recollected to have seen one copy of the New Testament, but the entire Bible I had never seen, and had never heard of the Patriarchs, or of the Lord Jesus Christ.