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Show 66 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. .t t brinrr my feelings to it, I earnestly hard as 1 was o b • . d l . t to come back. I adv1 cd hun to go entrcatc nn1 no . t t nThcrc his tono·nc would not be tlcd, to the Free a cs, " b , T • l . . t llirrcncc \vould be of 11101e ava1l to and where 11 111 c b • . II 1 f't c still hOI1lll0' the day \VOnlu COlne h1n1 c e 111 ' ... b · I ld l Louo·ht "\Vith 1ne the lan1p of hope when con Je u b • . t The dream of 1ny gtrlhood ·was over. had gone on · 1 felt lonely ancl desolate. ~till I was not ctl·ippcd of all. I still had n1y good d t] ancl 111,.,. affectionate brother. \Vhcn he gran 1no 1cr, (, J • put his arms round my neck, and looked mto my eyes, as iC to r eacl there the tronhlcs I dared not tell, I felt that I still had son1cthing to love. But. eYen that pleasant en1otion was chilled by the r eflectwn that he 111 ight be torn from me at any 1noincnt, by so1nc sud-den freak of n1y n1astcr. If he had known how ':c loved each other, I think he \vould have exulted 111 separating us. "\V c often planned ;.o~ether how we could get to the north. But, as "\\ 1l11an1 re1narkcd, such thing· arc easier said than done. My 1novcn1enLs were very clm.;cly watched, and we had no n1eans of getLing auy n1oncy to defray our expenses. As f~r grandn1othcr, she \Yas strongly opposed to her cl:tldrcn' unclertakinp; any snch project. She had not forgotten poor Tic11jatni.n~s sufferings, and she \vas afraiu that if another child tri.cu to escape, h e ·would hasc a sin1ilar or a wor ·c fate. To n1e, nothing scclned n1ore dreadful than my present life. I said to n1yt>olf, '' \Vitlian1 1nust be free. I-I c shall go to the north, aud I will follow hin1.' ' ~Iany a slave si tor has formed the san1c plans. What Slaves are Taught of the North. 6] VIII. WIIAT SL.AVES ARE 'rA.UGIIT TO 'riTINK OF TilE NORTII. SLA YEIIOLDERS pride the1usel ves upon being honorable rncn ; but if you ·were to hear the enorn1ons lies they tell their slaves, you ·would have n1all respect for their veracity. I hase spoken plain Engli ·h. Pardon me. I cau not u se a ruildcr tcrn1. ""\Vhen they visit the north, and r ctnrn hon1e, they tell their .·laYes of the runaways they have seen, and describe then1 to be in the 1no t cleplorable condition. A slaveholder once told 1110 that he had seen a runaway friend of n1ine in New York, and that . he be ·ou ght hin1 to take her lJack to her n1a.-tcr, for she " 'as literally dying of starvation; that rnany days she had only one cold. potato to cat, and at other tin1cs could get uothing at all. lie said he r efused to take h er, lJccausc he knew her n1a~ tcr would not thank hitn for brincriuo· sueh a n1is- b < crablc wrcteh to his h ou se. lie en dell by sa yin n· to n10, "This i.~ the punisluncnt ·he brought on h er self for rnnning away frorn a kind 1nn~tcl'." This whole tory \Yas fal. ·c. I afterwards staid with that friend in "'\ ow York, and found h er in colnfortable circnuLtances. She hacl Jlevcr thouo·ht of such b a thing a.· wishing to go back to slavery. 1\Iauy of the 8laves bclicYc such stories, and think it is not worth while to cxelwugo ~lnYery fur s1teh a hnn1 kind of freedonL lL is J111iuult Lo per:..,uade 1.·uc,b thaL frecdotn |