1 I was to regard all these as masters.
2 Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters.
3 They would impudently ask us if we would not like to have them for our masters.
4 At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately.
5 They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves.
6 A slave who would work during the holidays was considered by our masters as scarcely deserving them.
7 This time we regarded as our own, by the grace of our masters; and we therefore used or abused it nearly as we pleased.
8 White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters.
9 If they have any thing to say of their masters, it is generally in their masters' favor, especially when speaking to an untried man.
10 Many, under the influence of this prejudice, think their own masters are better than the masters of other slaves; and this, too, in some cases, when the very reverse is true.
11 By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.
12 It is partly in consequence of such facts, that slaves, when inquired of as to their condition and the character of their masters, almost universally say they are contented, and that their masters are kind.
13 Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others.
14 When Colonel Lloyd's slaves met the slaves of Jacob Jepson, they seldom parted without a quarrel about their masters; Colonel Lloyd's slaves contending that he was the richest, and Mr. Jepson's slaves that he was the smartest, and most of a man.
15 But by far the larger part engaged in such sports and merriments as playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was by far the most agreeable to the feelings of our masters.
16 If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved, it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural; for thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who, like myself, owe their existence to white fathers, and those fathers most frequently their own masters.
17 It was necessary to keep our religious masters at St. Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.
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