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FLING out the Anti-Slavery flag On every swelling breeze; And let its folds wave o'er the land, And o'er the raging seas, Till all beneath the standard sheet With new allegiance bow, And pledge themselves to onward bear The emblem of their vow. I told Page 54 him I had a note to go into the jail, and get a trunk to carry to one of the steamboats; but was so busily engaged that I could not do it, although I had a dollar to pay for it.

It was well for her that she had observed this precaution; for in a few moments Miss Tildy came in, and her first question was for Lindy. I was much surprised to see each one here take a slice of fat bacon and a pone of bread in his or her hand, and eat it standing. The poor fellow's back was literally cut to pieces; so much so, that he was not able to work for ten or twelve days.

It is said to have been composed by a slave. The advertisement had been put out by Isaac Mansfield and John Young. I told him that as I had served him faithfully, and had been the means of putting a number of hundreds of dollars into his pocket, I thought I had a right to my liberty. It was the deep hour of night. Two girls were seated beside the uncleared breakfast table, "trying their fortune" as the phrase goes with a cup of coffee-grounds and a spoon.

At times, a shadow of an idea, like the reflection of a kind dream, comes over my mind, and, then, I conjure him up as a large, venerable-looking man, with scanty, gray locks floating carelessly over an amplitude of forehead; a wide, hard-featured face, with yet a kindly glow of honest sentiment; broad, strong teeth, much discolored by the continued use of tobacco.

I was too much startled to fully understand the words, and stood vacantly gazing at him. For fear that some may think that I have misrepresented a slave-driver, I will here give an extract from a paper published in a slave-holding state, Tennessee, called the "Millennial Trumpeter. In the kitchen she is of no earthly service, and doesn't earn her salt.

All em dashes are encoded as -- Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Rambling autobiographies are like clean casual conversation with a playmate, where stories unfold in their own unique way. He bought a number of slaves as he passed the different farms and villages.

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After selling out this cargo of human flesh, we returned to St. Miss Bradly looked thoughtfully at me, as if watching the effect of her words; but she could not see that the seed which she had planted, perhaps carelessly, was destined to fructify and flourish through the coming seasons. Peterkin's Vagary,. Top Latest. Night came, but it brought no sleep to my eyes.

I am satisfied that none but a slave could place such an appreciation upon liberty as I did at that time. I stammered out something as to my willingness to do anything that was required of me. This was a most agreeable sedative to their ill-nature; and both sisters came close to Miss Bradly, fairly covering her with caresses, and addressing to her words of flattery.

I've a notion to bring Amy into the house. The eternal law of sovereign right will vindicate itself. But when I thought of slavery, with its democratic whips -- its republican chains -- its evangelical blood-hounds, and its religious slave-holders -- when I thought of all this paraphernalia of American democracy and religion behind me, and the prospect of liberty before me, I was encouraged to press forward, my heart was strengthened, and I forgot that I was tired or hungry.