"But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful."

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"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."

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"All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters."

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"He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat."

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"Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever."

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"That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war."

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"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free."

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