1 I had now consumed one half of the day.
2 I used to be in Mr. Hamilton's house nearly every day.
3 I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day.
4 Thus twice, in one short day, I escaped death by the merest chance.
5 I consoled myself with the hope that I should one day find a good chance.
6 In the afternoon of that day, we reached Annapolis, the capital of the State.
7 Scarcely a day passed, during the summer, but that some slave had to take the lash for stealing fruit.
8 Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl.
9 She made her journeys to see me in the night, travelling the whole distance on foot, after the performance of her day's work.
10 I remember only the day of the week, for at that time I had no knowledge of the days of the month, nor the months of the year.
11 I went one day down on the wharf of Mr. Waters; and seeing two Irishmen unloading a scow of stone, I went, unasked, and helped them.
12 Long before day we were up, our horses fed, and by the first approach of day we were off to the field with our hoes and ploughing teams.
13 Mr. Bondly came over to see Colonel Lloyd the next day, whether to pay him for his property, or to justify himself in what he had done, I know not.
14 I now proceeded with my team to the place where I had, the day before, been chopping wood, and loaded my cart pretty heavily, thinking in this way to tame my oxen.
15 I then placed myself in the bows of the sloop, and there spent the remainder of the day in looking ahead, interesting myself in what was in the distance rather than in things near by or behind.
16 Mrs. Hamilton used to sit in a large chair in the middle of the room, with a heavy cowskin always by her side, and scarce an hour passed during the day but was marked by the blood of one of these slaves.
17 I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood.
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