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"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
"It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union."
"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."
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"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
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