1 Especially would they do this, when leaving home.
2 He was continued in his station as overseer upon the home plantation.
3 She was hired by a Mr. Stewart, who lived about twelve miles from my home.
4 They lived in one house, upon the home plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd.
5 The home plantation of Colonel Lloyd wore the appearance of a country village.
6 The names of the farms nearest to the home plantation were Wye Town and New Design.
7 It afforded scope for the full exercise of all his powers, and he seemed to be perfectly at home in it.
8 I looked for home elsewhere, and was confident of finding none which I should relish less than the one which I was leaving.
9 Mr. and Mrs. Auld were both at home, and met me at the door with their little son Thomas, to take care of whom I had been given.
10 Colonel Lloyd kept from three to four hundred slaves on his home plantation, and owned a large number more on the neighboring farms belonging to him.
11 The overseers of these, and all the rest of the farms, numbering over twenty, received advice and direction from the managers of the home plantation.
12 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.
13 The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.
14 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.
15 Mr. Gore had served Colonel Lloyd, in the capacity of overseer, upon one of the out-farms, and had shown himself worthy of the high station of overseer upon the home or Great House Farm.
16 We had on board the sloop a large flock of sheep; and after aiding in driving them to the slaughterhouse of Mr. Curtis on Louden Slater's Hill, I was conducted by Rich, one of the hands belonging on board of the sloop, to my new home in Alliciana Street, near Mr. Gardner's ship-yard, on Fells Point.
17 It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery.
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