1 The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
2 These holidays serve as conductors, or safety-valves, to carry off the rebellious spirit of enslaved humanity.
3 I talked to them of our want of manhood, if we submitted to our enslavement without at least one noble effort to be free.
4 But in spite of him, and even in spite of myself, I continued to think, and to think about the injustice of my enslavement, and the means of escape.
5 Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me.
6 He argued that if one slave refused to be corrected, and escaped with his life, the other slaves would soon copy the example; the result of which would be, the freedom of the slaves, and the enslavement of the whites.
7 If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved, it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural; for thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who, like myself, owe their existence to white fathers, and those fathers most frequently their own masters.