1 Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.
2 It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
3 What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights.
4 These holidays serve as conductors, or safety-valves, to carry off the rebellious spirit of enslaved humanity.
5 I was relieved from it by the humane hand of Mr. David Ruggles, whose vigilance, kindness, and perseverance, I shall never forget.
6 He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.
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 I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane.
9 In entering upon the duties of a slaveholder, she did not seem to perceive that I sustained to her the relation of a mere chattel, and that for her to treat me as a human being was not only wrong, but dangerously so.
10 My mistress was, as I have said, a kind and tender-hearted woman; and in the simplicity of her soul she commenced, when I first went to live with her, to treat me as she supposed one human being ought to treat another.
11 It required a degree of courage unknown to them to do so; for just at that time, the slightest manifestation of humanity toward a colored person was denounced as abolitionism, and that name subjected its bearer to frightful liabilities.