1 But a few days before, and I was full of hope.
2 I was leaving, too, without the hope of ever being allowed to return.
3 I left without a regret, and with the highest hopes of future happiness.
4 I consoled myself with the hope that I should one day find a good chance.
5 I went at it in good earnest, working for the first time with the hope of reward.
6 The first two hours of that morning were such as I never experienced before, and hope never to again.
7 On setting sail, I walked aft, and gave to Colonel Lloyd's plantation what I hoped would be the last look.
8 I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear.
9 I could not hope to get off with any thing less than the severest punishment, and being placed beyond the means of escape.
10 We did this more to bring out the evidence against us, than from any hope of getting clear of being sold; for, as I have said, we were ready for that.
11 We met often, and consulted frequently, and told our hopes and fears, recounted the difficulties, real and imagined, which we should be called on to meet.
12 Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
13 At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then vanished.
14 I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would, at any rate, make him more kind and humane.
15 I often found myself regretting my own existence, and wishing myself dead; and but for the hope of being free, I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself, or done something for which I should have been killed.
16 Our reason for taking the water route was, that we were less liable to be suspected as runaways; we hoped to be regarded as fishermen; whereas, if we should take the land route, we should be subjected to interruptions of almost every kind.
17 From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.
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