Quote 1: “The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me.”

Burden feelings of pain were dealt with when they saw them gaining their freedom.

-Americans celebrated independence which brought them life, liberty, and happiness, but that didn’t mean anything to the slaves because they didn’t gain their freedom.

Quote 2: “The American church is guilty when viewed in connection with what it is doing to uphold slavery, but it is superlatively guilty when viewed in connection with its ability to abolish slavery.”

-The speaker is making a religious connection. Point the fact that how can people praise God and still comment a sin. Slavery is a crime that is against the bible. If they do glorify God, slavery would never exist.