1 Colonel Lloyd could not brook any contradiction from a slave.
2 He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
3 I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.
4 To all these complaints, no matter how unjust, the slave must answer never a word.
5 When he spoke, a slave must stand, listen, and tremble; and such was literally the case.
6 I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs.
7 Scarcely a day passed, during the summer, but that some slave had to take the lash for stealing fruit.
8 The allowance of the slave children was given to their mothers, or the old women having the care of them.
9 He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit.
10 The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
11 He was one of those who could torture the slightest look, word, or gesture, on the part of the slave, into impudence, and would treat it accordingly.
12 The colonel, after ascertaining where the slave belonged, rode on; the man also went on about his business, not dreaming that he had been conversing with his master.
13 A representative could not be prouder of his election to a seat in the American Congress, than a slave on one of the out-farms would be of his election to do errands at the Great House Farm.
14 The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.
15 The last and most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught with any tar upon his person, it was deemed sufficient proof that he had either been into the garden, or had tried to get in.
16 If a slave was convicted of any high misdemeanor, became unmanageable, or evinced a determination to run away, he was brought immediately here, severely whipped, put on board the sloop, carried to Baltimore, and sold to Austin Woolfolk, or some other slave-trader, as a warning to the slaves remaining.
17 I have been frequently asked, when a slave, if I had a kind master, and do not remember ever to have given a negative answer; nor did I, in pursuing this course, consider myself as uttering what was absolutely false; for I always measured the kindness of my master by the standard of kindness set up among slaveholders around us.
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