DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.