Blacks of the north who worked to ban slavery asked children in a private school financed by and for Negroes this question: "What do you think most about?"
As conveyed by Zinn, a seven-year-old child wrote:
"Dear schoolmates, we are going next summer to buy a farm and to work part of the day and to study the other part if we live to see it and come home part of the day to see our mothers and sisters and cousins if we are got any and see our kind folks and to be good boys and when we get a man to get the poor slaves from bondage. And I am sorrow to hear that the boat . . . went down with 200 poor slaves from up the river. Oh how sorrow I am to hear that, it grieves my heart so that I could faint in one minute."
Excerpt From
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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