- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Cruelty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is better than slavery.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020