But I'm like a lot of others, I don't know what we are going to do with so many of them; and I say let the southern people run their own business and not try to intermeddle in the business of the Almighty.
If He hadn't wanted slavery He could have prevented it.

As for me, I don't want no slaves.

Every one to his own way.

Reverdy's father came down from Tennessee too.

He emancipated all his slaves before coming.