1 He was not even a good imitator.
2 We believed him to be a good man.
3 He was called by the slaves a good overseer.
4 The good Irishman seemed to be deeply affected by the statement.
5 As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm.
6 I consoled myself with the hope that I should one day find a good chance.
7 This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.
8 I went at it in good earnest, working for the first time with the hope of reward.
9 It had almost ruined me for every good purpose, and fitted me for every thing which was bad.
10 In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten in any other way.
11 I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose.
12 I had received many good lessons from them, and was still receiving them, and the thought of leaving them was painful indeed.
13 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.
14 I was afraid that these seemingly good men might use me so; but I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.
15 She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.
16 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.
17 Whether this prophecy is ever fulfilled or not, it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right.
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