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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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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.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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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.
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