That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.