he words are, of course, in a large measure taken from Scripture, and from the hymns heard at church

The greater part of the music here presented has been taken down by the editors from the lips of the colored people themselves

a swaying of the bodies and nodding of the heads and lighting of the countenances and rhythmical movement of the hands, which I think no one present will ever forget.

but then I had been raised in a hardy school--had been taught to rely upon myself, and to prepare myself to render assistance to others

and since the evil had been planted, it must pass through certain stages before it could be eradicated. In fact, we give but little thought to the plant of evil until it grows to such monstrous proportions that it overshadows important interests; then the efforts to destroy it become earnest

They were not so much responsible for the curse under which I was born, as the God of nature and the fathers who framed the Constitution for the United States.

No toilsome or disagreeable duties were imposed upon me.

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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

Mrs. Franks looking him imploringly in the face, let drop her head, buryingher face in the palms of her hands. Soon it was found necessary to place herunder the care of a physician

The Colonel and the Judge! If any such understanding exist, it is withoutmy knowledge and consent, and ——”

he was also nurse and foster mother tothe two last children of Mrs. Franks, and loved them, to all appearance, as herown. The children reciprocated this affection, calling her “Mammy.

As soon as he was left sole dictator, he thought the time had come to put his threats into execution

During the time that Mr. Cook was overseer, I was a house servant -- a situation preferable to that of a field hand, as I was better fed, better clothed, and not obliged to rise at the ringing of the bell, but about half an hour after. I have often laid and heard the crack of the whip, and the screams of the slave

God made me as free as he did Enoch Price, and Mr. Price shall never receive a dollar from me. or my friends with my consent

My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me

have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing

NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!"

,\, ho fell beneath of all the dead Visit the scenes\ h that starry flag ' v ere th . . ey once bled

Upon the \\·ell-contested fi~ld.-_ Turned back the fierce opposing tide. And made the proud inrnder yield-\\ ht·n. wounded. side bv side chey lay. And heard with joy the proud h

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Well, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethmg out o kilter. I tink dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and ·de women at de N orf all a talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will he in a fix pretty soon. But what's all dis here talkin' 'bout?

Slowly from her seat in the corner rose Sojourner Truth, who, till now, had scarcely lifted her head. 'Don't let her speak!' gasped half a dozen in my ear. She moved slowly and solemnly to the front, laid her old bonnet at her feet, and turned her great, speaking eyes to me.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about. the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as rnuch too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for inte1~,2ct., all I can say is, if woman have a pint, and man a quart-. why can't she have her little

Think how many tears you have poured out. upon the soil which you have cultivated with unrequited toil and enriched with your blood; and then go to your lordly enslavers and tell them plainly, that you are determined to be free. Appeal to their sense of justice, and tell them that they have no more right to oppress you, than you have to enslave them.

lavery! How much misery is comprehended in that single word. What mind is there that does not shrink from its direful effects? Unless the image of God be obliterated from the soul, all men cher-ish the love of Liberty.

The propagators of the system, or their immediate ancestors, very soon discovered its growing evil, and its tremendous wickedness, and secret promises were made to destroy it.

ill not here speak of the destructions which the Lord brought upon Egypt, in consequence of the oppression and consequent groans of the oppressed--of the hundreds and thousands of Egyptians whom God hurled into the Red Sea for afflicting his people in their land--of the L

These positions I shall endeavour, by the help of the Lord, to demonstrate in the course of this Appeal, to the satisfaction of the most incredulous mind--and may God Almighty, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, open your hearts to understand and believe the trut

e Coloured People of these United States, are, the most wretched, degraded and abject set of beings that over lived since the world began, down to the present day, and, that, the white Christians of America, who hold us in slavery, (or, more properly speaking, pretenders to Christianity,) treat us more cruel and barbarous than any Heathen nation did any people whom it had subjected, or reduced to the same condition, that the Americans (who are, notwithstanding, looking for the Millennial day) hav

for in the end she was virtu-ally raped. For almost a year, she shared her master's bed. But Alfred was already beginning to tire of her; he found her ugly, cold, and insolent. About this time the poor woman gave birth to a boy and gave him the name Georges. Alfred refused to recogniz~ him, drove the mother from his presence, and relegated her to the most miserable hut on his lands, despite the fact that he knew very well, as well as one can, that he was the child's fathe "G · h r

I've never sold a single piece of bad merchandise,

"'How much do you want for this woman?' · "'Fifteen hundred piasters,' replied the auctioneer. "'Fifteen hundred piasters,' Alfred rejoined dryly.

Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:

He deign'd to die that they might rise again,

Improve your privileges while they stay, Ye pupils, and each hour redeem, that bears Or good or bad report of you to heav'n.

it is hoped may tend also to remove the prejudice that some conceive against the natives of Africa on account of their colour. Surely the minds of the Spaniards did not change with their complexions!

That part of Africa, known by the name of Guinea, to which the trade for slaves is carried on, extends along the coast above 3400 miles, from the Senegal to Angola, and includes a variety of kingdoms.

especially when I own I offer here the history of neither a saint, a hero, nor a tyrant.