1 My resistance was so entirely unexpected that Covey seemed taken all aback.
2 I was yet liable to be taken back, and subjected to all the tortures of slavery.
3 Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes.
4 It was painful to stand near the stable-door, and hear the various complaints against the keepers when a horse was taken out for use.
5 It, however, was not so severe as the one I dreaded at the division of property; for, during this interval, a great change had taken place in Master Hugh and his once kind and affectionate wife.
6 She was immediately buried, but had not been in her untimely grave but a few hours before she was taken up and examined by the coroner, who decided that she had come to her death by severe beating.
7 Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor.
8 It was for a long time a matter of surprise to me why Mr. Covey did not immediately have me taken by the constable to the whipping-post, and there regularly whipped for the crime of raising my hand against a white man in defence of myself.