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Show 290 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. hab,'' he replied. "I tuk car fur dat. I'd bin \vorkin all my days fur dem cnssccl ·whites., an got no pay but kicks and cuffs. o I taught dis nigger hac1 a right to money nuff to bring hin1 to de Free tate . ~Ia a IIonry he lib till ebcry bouy \i. ·h hitn dead ; an von he did die, I knowccl Je dobbil \Vonl<l hab hitn, an voul<ln't vant hin1 to bring his 1noney 'long too. So I tuk son1c of his bills, and puL 'cn1 in de pocket of his ole trousers. An von he \vas buried, dis nigger a ·k fur dc1n ole trou ers, an dey gub 'em to me." With a low, chuckling laugh, he added, "You sec I diJ.n't steal it; dey gub iL Lo 1ne. I tell you, I had mighty hard tin1e to keep de speculator fro1n findin it; buL be didn't git it." This is a fair specimen of ho\V the moral sen c is educated by lavery. "\Vh n a n1an has his ·wages stolen fron1 hitn, year after year, and the law auction and enforce the theft, hovr can he be expected to haso 1norc regard to honesty than has the 1nan who robs hin1? I have become sotnc"\vhat cnlio·htcncd but I b ' confess that I aoTcc w-ith poor, ignorant, 1nuch-abnsed linko, in thinking he had a r·ight to that 1noncy, as a porLion of his unpaicl wages. lie went to Canada forthwith, and I have not since hcar<l fro1n hirn. All that \vintcr I lived in a 'tate of anxiety. \Yhen I took the chHdrcn out to breathe the air, I clo ely obscrvccl the countenances of all I met. I dreaded the approach of ununcr, \vhcn snakes and slaveholders n1akc Lhcir appearance. I was, in fact, a slave in Now York, as sulJjcct to slave law · as I had been in a Slave~ ~tate . Strange inconoTuiLy in a tate called free! Spring rcLurnod, and I rccci voc1 \varning frOJn tho The Fugitive S1avc Law. 291 ·outh that Dr. Flint knew f 1 ° n1y return to 1 p ace, and \vas 1nakiu 0' prcl>"'r,ar ~ 1 111 Y o d b (1, (, lllOns lO 1ave I lcarncu afLcrwanl that ln 1 . , ( nlc caught. Bruce' · child · y c 1 c. ' and thaL of 1Ir. · 1 en, hatl he en doscribccl t l . 1 . of the N orLhcrn tool. wh icll ··1· , 1 llo l lln >y ·orne • ' •· c.t\ o 10 t cr · e 1 1 f :hct_r :m~c purpo.-cs, and th en indulge in ~;JCc:·.~l~~~l ~J: cu pt:ll Ly an~ lucan ·crv ili ty. teu I tn1n1edHtLely infonueJ. ~frs ]) . f l 1 · >l nee o 1ny <lann·('l' ant s 10 Look prOlllj)i lllC'HitU'e . r ' . l (""\ ' ' · · HH 1ny . ·aleLy ~r t pll:tce a . nur:c coultlnoL l>e suppli ed inunedial ul.y 'l.. ..l ltyl ll . o·encrou. sy ' I}. . I '" ' . b • '. tnpc.l" uzing acly prol>o:cd tlnl 1 ·I ll carry l e · b· 1J l " :-; 10 u < (, ~ I tl.. y away. l L was a ccnnCort to 1HC to ]nyc the clulcl \YtLh 1110 · for tho hn·) ,1 • 1 ' ' ' . v u,llJ I ' l'C u~Lu.nt Lo lie toul a\vay fr01u every ol,Jcct it l . "'. J) 1 • O\ us. >LLL lOW few lnothcrs \vould have con sen Led to ll "'"'\ TC o ne o r· •LI t('J. r IO Wll babes 1JCC0111C a fu o·i Li y ' for the S"lrc [' u . ).. o a poor runted llUl' c, On WhOnl the ll'crisla ton; of the COlt1\ t L'; had .let loo. e the bloodhounds! \rhea I f'pokc or the sacnfice . ·he \Va. nlaking, in dcprivin~· her::;elf of Iter dear b~by, she rcpliccl, "li i . boiLer for you Lo ha\·c haby ~1 Lh you,. Linda; ~or if they get on your traelc, ~l.lCy \V.lll .be o1)llgec~ t_o.l>nn~· the child to 1110; and then, 11 thole lS a possll.nltLy of saYing you, you ..Jw.ll be saved." ~,his lady had a very \V "'aHhy rclatiYc a ben Yol <"\nt gcnLlenHtn in tnany ro.,prcts, lJnt ari.toeratic ancl pro-lavery. Ilo rcn1on :trnLcd with h r for harhori11o· a fn gi Live slaxc ; told her she was \'jointing the ln w~':) of her counLry; and asked her jf' she was awnro or Lhc penalty. ~he repli c< l, "1 mn Yr ·y well aware or it. It is in1pri so nn1 nt and one th o u ~ a11d dolltu·: fine . Hhatue ou n1y country LllaL iL is .·o! l tuu ready Lo |
