So she done it. And it was the n*****s – I just expected it. She said the beautiful trip to England was most about spoiled for her; she didn’t know HOW she was ever going to be happy there, knowing the mother and the children warn’t ever going to see each other no more – and then busted out bitterer than ever, and flung up her hands.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 28. Mary Jane Wilks is distressed over the separation of the slave family. Apart from Huck, she seems to be the only other white person in the book who is able to see black people as having the same feelings as white people.