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 my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

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

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

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.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.