Tom seemed to know it was an artery which had been cut, and he did just the right thing to stop the bleeding.

He knew there wasn't a moment to be lost.

He wasn't going to wait for the doctor.

I have often heard that colored people are ungrateful, but I don't think Tom's worst enemy would say that about him." "Captain," said Robert, with a tone of bitterness in his voice, "what had we to be grateful for?
For ages of poverty, ignorance, and slavery?
I think if anybody should be grateful, it is the people who have enslaved us and lived off our labor for generations.

Captain, I used to know a poor old woman who couldn't bear to hear any one play on the piano." "Is that so?
Why, I always heard that colored people were a musical race." "So we are; but that poor woman's daughter was sold, and her mistress took the money to buy a piano.