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Show 68 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. conl cl 1na1 c c -"4 hcn1 u~cful 111cn, and enable thc1n to pro. 1 1 · teet t l1 m· r w·n . c s u".t l'\.l children. If •t hose .l1cat 1cn • 111 our C · t' 1 ,, Jhn · uu1 anu 1.( ....~. cl a~.. 1nuch tcaclnng as son1c II1ndoos, lcl tl · 1they won ]c 01hcrwi ·c. They ·woul<l kno·w that 111 " • ., • liberty is luorc valuable than h.f~.. 'I hey ·would bcgut to under tand their own capab1hL1cs, and exert them· selves to bccon1c ntcn ancl won1cn.. . But while the Free tatcs su:tau1 a la\v wlnch hurl · fugitives back into lnscry, ho\V can the sla\~Cs rcsolYe to 1Jcco1nc 1ucn? There arc sotnc w·ho stnvc to protect wives and daughters from the in ·ult of their masters; but those who have such scnti1nents hasc had advantages above the gcncra1 1nass. o.f s~avcs. '£hey have been partially civilized and Chnstlan1zcd by favor· atlc circumstances. Some arc bold enough to utter such scnti1ncnts to their 1nastcrs. 0, that there were 1norc of thcn1 ! Sotnc poor creatures have been so brutalized by the lash that they will sneak out of the ·way to give their n1astcrs free access to their \Vives and daughters. Do yon think this proves the black 1n~n to belong to an inferior order of beings ? \Vhat woulcl you be, if you had UCCll born and brought up a slave, \Vith generations of ,'laves for ancestors ? I adrnit that the black n1an is inferior. But what is it that n1akcs hin1 so? It is the ignorance in which \vhitc n1cn con1pcl hi1n to li-re; it is the torturing whip that lashes 1nanhoocl out of hitn; it is the f10rcc l>loodhonnds of the South, ancl the scarcely less cruel ln1n1a.11 blooclhonuc.ls of the north, ·who enforce the Fugitive Slave La·w. '1'/wy do tho \York. SouLhcrn gcnLlcn1cn indulge in the 1nost conLe1npt- \\ 7hat Slaves are Taught of the North. 6g uou oxprcf-·~ions about the Yan kcc:, \vhilc they on . ' thci r part, con. ·en t to <.lo the vil . t \\'orlc for thc1n, such as the ferocious uloodhounds and the dcspi:cd HC~)TOhuntcrs arc cn11,loyed to do a.L hmnc. \Vhcn soulhcrncrs go to the norLh, they arc proud to do thmn honor; but the northern 1nan i: not \vclcon1c sonth of :Ma ·on and J)ixon's line, unlc ·s he ·upprcsscs cYcry thought and feeling at variance \vi th their " peculiar institution." Nor is it cnon<rh to he ·ilcnt. The nutstors arc not pleased, unlc · they ol>iain a greater degree of sub ·crYicncc than that ; a11 <1 they arc ?Cncrally accon1oclatccl. J)o they r sp ct the northerner for this? I trow· not. E\·on tho slaYcs despise "a, northern n1n.n ·with ,·out11Crn princivlcs ; " and that is the cla ·s they generally . ·cc. \Vh en llOrthcrncr: go to the south to rc~iuc, they proYc Ycry apt schol·:trs. They ·oon i1nlJilJc the sen tin1cn t: a ncl clispo~i Lion of their neighbor., and generally go he yond thcjr teacher., Of the two, they arc proYerbially the hardc t 1na:ters. They sccn1 to sati fy their con 'Cicnccs ·with the doetrine that Goc.l created the Africans to lJc laYcs. \Vhat a libel upon the heavenly Father, who "1naclc of one blood all nations of 1ncn ! " ..A .. nd then ·who are .AJricans? Who can 1ncasurc the an1onnt of .A.nglo- axon blood cour.:ing in the vein: of .A.1ncrican slaYcs? I ha\c spoken of the pains sla\·choldcrs take to give their :la\'·cs a bad opinion of the north; lJut, notwithstanding this, intelligent slaves arc aware that they have n1a11y friends in tbc Fr c State:. B\·cn the 1no.t ignorant ha YC ·on1c confu,·ed notion: a l>ou t it. They knew that I could read ; and 1 ·wa.' often uskc<1 if I had seen any thing in the newspapers alJont whiLe folks |