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Show Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. . d "What right hav-e you, who are my cxc1a1mc · ld 1·k d neo-ro to ta1 1c t o ln e about what you \VOU 1 e, an ,vhb at y' -ou won1 u_, n 't like ?· I am your master, and you shall obey 1ne. " . No ·wonder the slaves slng,- "Ole Satan's church is h ere below ; , Up to God's free church I hope to go. • • 'I Another Link to Life. 11] XIV. ANOTIIER LINIC rro LIFE. I HAD not returned to n1y n1aster's house since the bi rth of n1y chil<1. 'l'he old n1an raYed to have 1ne thus renloYcJ fron1 his inunec1iate povr·er; but l1i. wife vowed, by all tl1at was good and great, ·he ·would kill me if I ca1ne back ; and he Llid not doubt her \vord. Son1etin1es he ·would stay away for a season. 'l'hcn he woulJ co1nc and. renc\f the ol<l threadbare dis~ourse about his forbearance and n1y ingratitndc. lie labored, 1nost unnccc.-:arily, to con vi nee n1c that I had loweroJ 1nysclf. The Ycno1nons old reprobate 1uul no need of do .. canting on that tlten1c. I felt ln11niliatcd enough. :llfy uncon .. cious babe \Ya. · the ever-prc~ont witness of 1ny s1uuue. I li~tcne<l \\rith ~ilcnt cont01npt when he talked about 1ny having forf()iteJ his goo<l opinion; but I shed bitter tears that I ·was no longer worthy of being respected by the good anJ pure. Alas! slavery still held 1nc in its poi ... onous gra. p. There was no chance for me to be ro ·poctahle. rrhore was no prospect of being able to load a better life. Someti1ncs, when n1y master found that I still refused to accept what he called his kind offers, he would threaten to sell n1y child. " Perhaps that will humble yo n,'' saicl he. llnmble ?7W ! \Yas I not already in the dust? But his threat lacerated 1ny heart. I knew the law gaYe hi1n power to fulfil it ; for slaYcholclers have been |