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

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

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.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.