1 Meanwhile, I will try to bear up under the yoke.
2 Let but the first opportunity offer, and, come what will, I am off.
3 As an example, I will state one of many facts going to prove the charge.
4 Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.
5 I will not say that this most horrid murder produced no sensation in the community.
6 It may be that my misery in slavery will only increase my happiness when I get free.
7 To use his own words, further, he said, "If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell."
8 Overseers will sometimes indulge in a witty word, even with the slaves; not so with Mr. Gore.
9 And the only explanation I can now think of does not entirely satisfy me; but such as it is, I will give it.
10 He is a desperate slaveholder, who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors with the cries of his lacerated slave.
11 For instance, the slaveholders not only like to see the slave drink of his own accord, but will adopt various plans to make him drunk.
12 I will do the same; and when I get to the head of the bay, I will turn my canoe adrift, and walk straight through Delaware into Pennsylvania.
13 This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning.
14 Had he been a man of pure morals himself, he might have been thought interested in protecting the innocence of my aunt; but those who knew him will not suspect him of any such virtue.
15 Whilst I am detailing bloody deeds which took place during my stay on Colonel Lloyd's plantation, I will briefly narrate another, which occurred about the same time as the murder of Demby by Mr. Gore.
16 It was here that I witnessed the bloody transaction recorded in the first chapter; and as I received my first impressions of slavery on this plantation, I will give some description of it, and of slavery as it there existed.
17 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.
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