1 I found no severe trial in my departure.
2 It was some time before I found what the word meant.
3 I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them.
4 He found himself incapable of managing his slaves either by force, fear, or fraud.
5 I found it was "the act of abolishing;" but then I did not know what was to be abolished.
6 Among much of other interesting matter, I found in it a dialogue between a master and his slave.
7 I found, instead of going down, on reaching North Point they went up the bay, in a north-easterly direction.
8 I have frequently felt her head, and found it nearly covered with festering sores, caused by the lash of her cruel mistress.
9 The poor man was then informed by his overseer that, for having found fault with his master, he was now to be sold to a Georgia trader.
10 I took passage with Captain Rowe, in the schooner Wild Cat, and, after a sail of about twenty-four hours, I found myself near the place of my birth.
11 When I was sent of errands, I always took my book with me, and by going one part of my errand quickly, I found time to get a lesson before my return.
12 If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying.
13 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.
14 Aunt Hester had not only disobeyed his orders in going out, but had been found in company with Lloyd's Ned; which circumstance, I found, from what he said while whipping her, was the chief offence.
15 Prior to his conversion, he relied upon his own depravity to shield and sustain him in his savage barbarity; but after his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty.
16 I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself, or done something for which I should have been killed.
17 Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
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