1 When that came, I was determined to be off.
2 My determination to run away was again revived.
3 He raved, and swore his determination to get hold of me.
4 But I was not willing to cherish this determination alone.
5 The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.
6 I was anxious to have them participate with me in this, my life-giving determination.
7 It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.
8 I found among them a determination to protect each other from the blood-thirsty kidnapper, at all hazards.
9 In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.
10 It was a step towards freedom to be allowed to bear the responsibilities of a freeman, and I was determined to hold on upon it.
11 I told him I did, come what might; that he had used me like a brute for six months, and that I was determined to be used so no longer.
12 At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.
13 I was ever on the look-out for means of escape; and, finding no direct means, I determined to try to hire my time, with a view of getting money with which to make my escape.
14 That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.
15 If a slave was convicted of any high misdemeanor, became unmanageable, or evinced a determination to run away, he was brought immediately here, severely whipped, put on board the sloop, carried to Baltimore, and sold to Austin Woolfolk, or some other slave-trader, as a warning to the slaves remaining.