The entire system of the judiciary of this country is in the hands of white people.

After burning the feet and legs, the hot irons—plenty of fresh ones being at hand—were rolled up and down Smith's stomach, back, and arms. Then the eyes were burned out and irons were thrust down his throat.

During all the years of slavery, no such charge was ever made, not even during the dark days of the rebellion

Negroes were whipped, scourged, exiled, shot and hung whenever and wherever it pleased the white man

n slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.

During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul

being a problem

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  "Shout, O children!                         Shout, you're free!                         For God has bought your liberty!"

How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

landcouldbeboughtforameresong

Henrydiedtoo,-deswentoutsorterlikeacannel

accountedforhisadvicetomenottobuythevineyard

ButIthoughtyousaidalltheoldvinesdied.

Slavery had its dark side as well as its bright side.

I did not know much of my father, for he was the slave of another man,

. Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing--youth's Page 20 important lesson of self-reliance.

was born a slave--was the child of slave parents--therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I

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.

If I have portrayed the dark side of slavery, I also have painted the bright side

     Three months elapsed, and there was no prospect of release or of a purchaser.

This audacity was punished with heavier chains, and prohibition of our visits.

He escaped from the vessel, but was pursued, captured, and carried back to his master.

e don't die but once."

  My grandmother's mistress had always promised her that, at her death, she should be free; and it was said that in her will she made good the promise. But when the estate was settled, Dr. Flint told the faithful old servant that, under existing circumstances, it was necessary she should be sold.

dear little friend of mine was buried.

Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings.

I prayed in my heart that she might live! I loved her; for she had been almost like a mother to me.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

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

Secondly, the mistress, with whom she lived till she was twelve years old, was a kind, considerate friend, who taught her to read and spell.

I have not added any thing to the incidents

it would have been more pleasant to me to have been silent about my own history. Neither do I care to excite sympathy for my own sufferings

 When I first arrived in Philadelphia, Bishop Paine advised me to publish a sketch of my life, but I told him I was altogether incompetent to such an undertaking

I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose. He resolved to put me out, as he said, to be broken

HAVE now reached a period of my life when I can give dates.

She was nevertheless left a slave--a slave for life--a slave in the hands of strangers;

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine.

As many of these as I could, I converted into teachers. With their kindly aid, obtained at different times and in different places,

LIVED in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write

In learning to read, I owe almost as much to the bitter opposition of my master, as to the kindly aid of my mistress. I acknowledge the benefit of both

I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom

both colored, and quite dark.

  Mr. DOUGLASS has very properly chosen to write his own Narrative, in his own style, and according to the best of his ability, rather than to employ some one else.

Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars

Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder. It required extraordinary barbarity on the part of an overseer to affect him. He was a cruel

was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial. She was gone long before I knew any thing about it.

I love the man whose lofty mind On God and its own strength rel, . k h . 1es, Who see s l t' welfare of his kind, And dare be ~onest though he dies;

And hear the agonizing cry Ascendini,1. up to God on high,

tripped of those _r,•r h-~ human race. Bequeathed to a l t. d <l t.:ranl ._ no . Boun to a petty _Y • 1--h . ·1 o.-1 ler c1ce. Beca.use e wears • r • I'

But ~'hitlidd dcsenes an intnidut·tion mor~·. tn hne ,rith Lan>lston I lu~lws\ poetk sdf-drnral'leri,.ation in "i\le and tlw lVlule, \\ h,ch Hu!!hl'S condmles b, affirming,. unapolo~l·Lirnll). 1h,1l lile his mule he's "Black-.1nd don't giq• a tlanrn! / \'nu ~ol to talt• nw I Lil-e I am.

every eye was fixed on this almost Amazon for1?3, ':hich st?0d nearly six feet high head erect, and eye piercing the upper air, hke one m a dream.

Don't let her speak!'

ojourner Truth never leurncd to read or write. "I cannot read a book, but_ I can read the people,

"I do not recollect ever to have been conversant with any one who had more of that silent and subtle power which we call personal presence than this woman."

Labor for the peace of the human race, and remember that you are four millions.

public opinion (which in this country is stronger than law)

The voice of Freedom cried, “Emancipate your slaves.”

slaves were often their rarest artists.

Can a man of colour buy a piece of land and keep it peaceably? Will not some white man try to get it from him, even if it is in a mud hole?

The whites have always been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious and blood-thirsty set of beings, always seeking after power and authority

I know it to be a fact, that some of them take the Egyptians to have been a gang of devils, not knowing any better, and that they (Egyptians) having got possession of the Lord's people, treated them nearly as cruel as Christian Page 10 Americans do us, at the present day

for in the end she was virtu-ally raped.

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

'How much do you want for this woman?'

st· Doming~e, now known as Haiti.

Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write.

thy thirst of boundless power too late.

The Goddess comes, she moves divinely fair, Olive and laurel binds Her golden hair:

e lost ones are regained. It was Madame Paulina and Amanda, the mother and sister of the unhappy THERESA. S

Truth alone can make us happy,

musketry,

And thus escaped the dreadful slaughter.

Was taken and carried to Canada.

Not many rods distant from his head.

He came and carried me home, as I was unable to go myself on account of my wounds. Nothing remarkable happened afterwards until my father sent for me to return home.

  I WAS born at Dukandarra, in Guinea, about the year 1729

  THE following account of the life of VENTURE, is a relation of simple facts, in which nothing is added in substance to what he related himself. Many other interesting and curious passages of his life might have been inserted; but on account of the bulk to which they must necessarily have swelled this narrative, they were omitted. If any should suspect the truth of what is here related, they are referred to people now living who are acquainted with most of the facts mentioned in the narrative.

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. Of these the most considerable is the kingdom of Benen, both as to extent and wealth, the richness and cultivation of the soil, the power of its king, and the number and warlike disposition of the inhabitants.

My father was one of those elders or chiefs I have spoken of, and was styled Embrenche; a term, as I remember, importing the highest distinction, and Page 6 signifying in our language a mark of grandeur. This mark is conferred on the person entitled to it, by cutting the skin across at the top of the forehead, and drawing it down to the eye-brows; and while it is in this situation applying a warm hand, and rubbing it until it shrinks up into a thick weal across the lower part of the forehead. Most of the judges and senators were thus marked; my father had long born it: I had seen it conferred on one of my brothers, and I was also destined to receive it by my parents. Those Embrence, or chief men, decided disputes and punished crimes

us, at the very moment I dreamed of the greatest happiness, I found myself

they should not have me again, and so paid them Ten Dollars for me,