1 I wish I could commit to paper the feelings with which I beheld it.
2 My fellow-apprentices very soon began to feel it degrading to them to work with me.
3 Finding what was coming, I nerved myself up, feeling it would never do to stop work.
4 I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it.
5 As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing.
6 The meanest slave was put fully at ease in her presence, and none left without feeling better for having seen her.
7 This state of mind, however, very soon subsided; and I was again seized with a feeling of great insecurity and loneliness.
8 We now began to feel a degree of safety, and to prepare ourselves for the duties and responsibilities of a life of freedom.
9 I suppose I felt as one may imagine the unarmed mariner to feel when he is rescued by a friendly man-of-war from the pursuit of a pirate.
10 His work went on in his absence almost as well as in his presence; and he had the faculty of making us feel that he was ever present with us.
11 My home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving any thing which I could have enjoyed by staying.
12 The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.
13 He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.
14 I always felt worse for having received any thing; for I feared that the giving me a few cents would ease his conscience, and make him feel himself to be a pretty honorable sort of robber.
15 There must be no halting; every one must be at his or her post; and woe betides them who hear not this morning summons to the field; for if they are not awakened by the sense of hearing, they are by the sense of feeling: no age nor sex finds any favor.
16 I, however, can see very little good resulting from such a course, either to themselves or the slaves escaping; while, upon the other hand, I see and feel assured that those open declarations are a positive evil to the slaves remaining, who are seeking to escape.
17 Let him be left to feel his way in the dark; let darkness commensurate with his crime hover over him; and let him feel that at every step he takes, in pursuit of the flying bondman, he is running the frightful risk of having his hot brains dashed out by an invisible agency.
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