1 I took right hold of the cause.
2 Mr. Severe was rightly named: he was a cruel man.
3 I regarded it as a sort of admission of my right to the whole.
4 Hughes came, and, while Covey held me, attempted to tie my right hand.
5 The right of the grim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same.
6 I had at one time over forty scholars, and those of the right sort, ardently desiring to learn.
7 What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights.
8 To please him, I at length took the root, and, according to his direction, carried it upon my right side.
9 After a long spell of effort, I succeeded in getting my cart righted, my oxen disentangled, and again yoked to the cart.
10 He who proclaims it a religious duty to read the Bible denies me the right of learning to read the name of the God who made me.
11 Upon the right and left, I was walled in by granite warehouses of the widest dimensions, stowed to their utmost capacity with the necessaries and comforts of life.
12 He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.
13 I contracted for it; I earned it; it was paid to me; it was rightfully my own; yet, upon each returning Saturday night, I was compelled to deliver every cent of that money to Master Hugh.
14 He told me, with great solemnity, I must go back to Covey; but that before I went, I must go with him into another part of the woods, where there was a certain root, which, if I would take some of it with me, carrying it always on my right side, would render it impossible for Mr. Covey, or any other white man, to whip me.
15 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.