1 I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years.
2 I spent two years of childhood on this plantation in my old master's family.
3 Those of us who had families at a distance, were generally allowed to spend the whole six days in their society.
4 It was now more than seven years since I lived with him in the family of my old master, on Colonel Lloyd's plantation.
5 My master's family consisted of two sons, Andrew and Richard; one daughter, Lucretia, and her husband, Captain Thomas Auld.
6 It was tenfold harder after living in Master Hugh's family, where I had always had enough to eat, and of that which was good.
7 They suppress the truth rather than take the consequences of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
8 Thanks to a kind Providence, I fell to the portion of Mrs. Lucretia, and was sent immediately back to Baltimore, to live again in the family of Master Hugh.
9 The exercises of his family devotions were always commenced with singing; and, as he was a very poor singer himself, the duty of raising the hymn generally came upon me.
10 He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death.