Yas,suh.Ilivesdesoberyander,behinedenexsan'-hill,ondoLumbertonPlank-road.."

IwentseveraltimestolookataplacewhichIthoughtmightsuitme.Ithadbeenatonetimeathriving plantation,

landcouldbeboughtforameresong.

He tried his utmost to corrupt the pure principles my grandmother had instilled

God's will be done.

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.

I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom

here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling Page 31 chains of slavery

The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case. I found no severe trial in my departure. My home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving any thing which I could have enjoyed by staying. My mother was dead, my grandmother lived far off, so that I seldom saw her. I

Before he commenced whipping Aunt Hester, he took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving her neck, shoulders, and back, entirely naked. He then told her to cross her hands, calling her at the same time a d--d b--h. After crossing her hands, he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose. He made her get upon the stool, and tied her hands to the hook. She now stood fair for his infernal purpose. Her arms were stretched up at their full length, so that she stood upon the ends of her toes. He then said to her, "Now, you d--d b--h, I'll learn you how to disobey my orders!" and after rolling up his sleeves, be commenced to lay on the heavy cowskin, and soon the warm, red blood (amid heart-rending shrieks from her, and horrid oaths from him) came dripping to the floor. I was so terrified and horror-stricken at the Page 8 sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not venture out till long after the bloody transaction was over. I expected it would be my turn next. It was all new to me. I had never seen any thing like it before. I had always lived with my grandmother on the outskirts of the plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.

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

I think I never hated slavery so intensely as at that moment;

To forge fresh fetters, hea\'ier chains For their own children. in whose veins Should flow that patriotic blood. So freely shed on field and flood. Oh no: they fought. as thev believed, For the inherent rights ~f man: But mark, how they ha\·e been deceived By slan·ry's accursed plan.

With demons in eternal flame. Almighty God! 'tis this they call The land of liberty and law

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

Well, if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again.

Two efforts were made during her lifetime to preserve her biography and the flavor of her remarkable manner of self-expression. In 1850 Truth worked with Olive Gilbert, a sympathetic white woman, to write and publish the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a contribution to both the slave narrative and female spiritual autobiography traditions of African American literature. In 1875 with the aid of a white friend, Frances Titus, Truth reprinted her Narrative

The singularity of her identity and the impossibility of labeling her are epito-mized in her appropriation of "I am that I am," the words God speaks in the Bible in answer to Moses's attempt to give the Lord a name.

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

t is impossible, like the children of Israel, to make a grand exodus from the land of bondage. The Pharaohs are on both sides of the blood-red waters!

Here let me ask Mr. Jefferson, (but he is gone to answer at the bar of God, for the deeds done in his body while living,) I therefore ask the whole American people, had I not rather die, or be put to death, than to be a slave to any tyrant, who takes not only my own, but my wife and children's lives by the inches? Yea, would I meet death with avidity far! far! ! in preference to such servile submission to the murderous hands of tyrants.

to the present day--ought to be kept with all of his children or family, in slavery, or in chains, to be butchered by his cruel enemies.

God has been pleased to give us two eyes, two hands, two feet, and some sense in our heads as well as they. They have no more right to hold us in slavery than we have to hold them, we have just as much right, in the sight of God, to hold them and their children in slavery and wretchedness, as they have to hold us, and no more.

merican culture, and serve as havens of African-Amer-ican expression and identity for generations.

hrough media of print and performative transmission, Allen could take his place as an evangelical author valuable to the revival movements of the rural west even as he struggled to build his authority in the urban east

DURING the long and bloody contest, in St. Domingo, between the white man, who flourished the child of sensuality, rioting on the miseries of his slaves; had the sons of Africa, who, provoked to madness, and armed themselves against French barbarity; Madame Paulina was left a widow, unhappy -unprotected, and exposed to all the horrors of the revolution

THERESA, -_______ A Haytien Tale.

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

black as Cain,

'TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:

Great God, direct, and guard him from on high, And from his head let ev'ry evil fly!

Suppress the deadly serpent in its egg

Was taken and carried to Canada.

Before he had time to fight, -

Our pine apples grow without culture

:

for I had never heard of white men or Europeans, nor of the sea: and our subjection to the king of Benin was little more than nominal; for every transaction of the government, as far as my slender observation extended, was conducted by the chiefs or elders of the place

I informed my master that Heddy was the ringleader of our revolt, and that he had used us ill. He immediately put Heddy into Page 18 custody, and myself and companions were well received and went to work as usual.

respecting his money which they knew he must have.

  The first thing worthy of notice which I remember was, a contention between my father and mother, on account of my father's marrying his third wife without the consent of his first and eldest, which was contrary to the custom generally observed among my countrymen.

Iburstintotears,andaskedwha„tIhaddonetodeservesocrueladeath!

Iwent.onallthisdaywithoutanythingtoeatordrink.