1 servant, full liberty to go to Baltimore, and spend the Easter holidays.
2 The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.
3 A slave who would work during the holidays was considered by our masters as scarcely deserving them.
4 These holidays serve as conductors, or safety-valves, to carry off the rebellious spirit of enslaved humanity.
5 The days between Christmas and New Year's day are allowed as holidays; and, accordingly, we were not required to perform any labor, more than to feed and take care of the stock.
6 The plan we finally concluded upon was, to get a large canoe belonging to Mr. Hamilton, and upon the Saturday night previous to Easter holidays, paddle directly up the Chesapeake Bay.
7 From what I know of the effect of these holidays upon the slave, I believe them to be among the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholder in keeping down the spirit of insurrection.
8 Immediately after the holidays were over, contrary to all our expectations, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Freeland came up to Easton, and took Charles, the two Henrys, and John, out of jail, and carried them home, leaving me alone.