who made him my master?

It’s a free country, sir; the man’s mine, and I do what I please with him,—that’s it!”

He was waited upon over the factory, shown the machinery by George, who, in high spirits, talked so fluently, held himself so erect, looked so handsome and manly, that his master began to feel an uneasy consciousness of inferiority. What business had his slave to be marching round the country, inventing machines, and holding up his head among gentlemen? He’d soon put a stop to it. He’d take him back, and put him to hoeing and digging

and the trader laughed at his joke.

It’s always best to do the humane thing,

Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars,

Bravo!” said Haley, throwing him a quarter of an orange.

Jim Crow,”

He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,—

. Nor did it matter that her captors did what many U.S. citizens proudly claim they would do should an invasion happen today.

The problem, rather, is that she—and society as a whole—deemed the context of her captivity unimportant

I can but admire to see the wonderful providence of God in preserving the heathen for further affliction to our poor country.

I told them, they had as good knock me in head as starve me to death.

Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself, and savory it was to my taste

So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a liar from the beginning.

He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat

at last an old Indian bade me to come to him, and his squaw gave me some ground nuts; she gave me also something to lay under my head, and a good fire we had; and through the good providence of God, I had a comfortable lodging that night.

but going out to see what I could find, and walking among the trees, I found six acorns, and two chestnuts, which were some refreshment to me.

I complained it was too heavy, whereupon she gave me a slap in the face,

It seems to be a bait the devil lays to make men lose their precious time.

And His goodness in bringing to my hand so many comfortable and suitable scriptures in my distress.

wigwams

On the Saturday they boiled an old horse’s leg which they had got, and so we drank of the broth, as soon as they thought it was ready, and when it was almost all gone, they filled it up again.

Then they went and showed me where it was, where I saw the ground was newly digged,

my child being even ready to depart this sorrowful world

This was the comfort I had from them,

still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.

at which they, like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it

fear of the Indians

If you just hear about it you are not likely to try it. If you desire real knowledge about it try it yourself, for then you will learn of things that you had never known before. In no other way will you ever be happy.

For three days and three nights I had been eating medicine, and for three days and three nights I had not slept.

In the middle of the night I saw God. To God living up above, our Father, I prayed. “Have mercy upon me! Give me knowledge that I may not say and do evil things. To you, O God, I am trying to pray. Do thou, O Son of God, help me, too. This religion, let me know. Help me, O medicine, grandfather, help me! Let me know this religion!”

the so-called Mescal or Peyote,