So far from sweet real things my thoughts had strayed,I had forgot wide fields; and clear brown streams;

In wistful April days, when lovers mateAnd wander through the fields in raptures sweet

I had not thought of violets late

Appealing cries, yearning only to go There in that holocaust of hell, those fields of woe— But—I must sit and sew

Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death

My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams

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

The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right

The slave was rarely killed, he was too valuable; it was easier and quite as effective, for discipline or revenge, to sell him "Down South."

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

What merely living clod, what captive thing

How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Though still about his hands he felt his chains.

"I can't stay behind, my Lord," was struck up, and sung by the entire multitude with a zest and spirit, 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.

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

 The musical capacity of the negro race has been recognized for so many years that it is hard to explain why no systematic effort has hitherto been made to collect and preserve their melodies

I and my wife have been both robbed of our liberty, and you want meto be satisfied with a hope of heaven. I won't do any such thing

Whyyou speak of your Negro slaves as if speaking of equals

“I can't, I won't let her go! she's a dear good girl!” replied Mrs. Franks. “Thechildren are attached to her, and so am I; let Minny or any other of them go—but do not, for Heaven's sake, tear Maggie from me!”

Slavery had its dark side as well as its bright side

The following Thursday Mr. Bingham again tried to conquer me, but in vain. We struggled, and he struck me many savage blows. As I stood bleeding before him, nearly exhausted with his efforts, he burst into tears, and declared that it would be a sin to beat me any more

Again I went home sore and bleeding, but with pride as

Hiring-day at the south takes place on the 1st of January. On the 2d, the slaves are expected to go to their new masters

Dr. Flint handed them both over to a slave-trader

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.

"An abolition affair!' 'Woman's rights and niggers!' 'We told you so!' 'Go it, old darkey!'

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

.. •.1 SOJOURNER TRUTH ca. 1799-1883 .... ,.~-.-~ .. ore than any other African America~ of h~r era, Sojourner Truth wa~ the s~uff ; of antislavery legend. She is said to have been accosted once by a white police-man in Rochester, New York, as she walked alone, cane in hand, from Corinthian Hall after delivering an antislavery lecture ea:dier that evening. The policeman demanded that she identify herself. Truth paused, pla1!-ted her cane firmly, drew herself up to her full six-foot height, and in her deep, resonant voice, replied, "I am that I am." The unnerved officer vanished. Sojourner Truth went on to her destina-tion undisturbed.

. You had far better all die—die immediately, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity

They came not with glad spirits to select their homes in the New World. They came not with their own consent, to find an unmolested enjoyment of the blessings of this fruitful soil

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET3 Two hundred and twenty-seven years ago, the first of our injured race were brought to the shores of America

I will not here speak of the destructions which the Lord brought upon Egypt

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

we 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

Georges had all the talents necessary for becoming a well-regarded gentle-man; yet he was possessed of a haughty, tenacious, willful nature;

hat is, free men who have been torn from their country by ruse or by force, and who have become, by violence, the goods, the property of their fellow men

w Orleans. Sejour's parents were sufficiently prosperous to send their son

Necessity being the source of human inventions, was now ready to commune with her mind on subjects of moment, and to give birth to the events of its decision

It was but the last night, that she witnessed the most terrifying scenes of her life -when the shrieks of her dying friends made her apprehend justly what her own fate must be

rioting on the miseries of his slaves

Before he had time to fight, - Before he did the Indians see, Was shot and killed immediately.

His face no more shalt we behold

The Indians did in ambush lay

When a trader wants slaves, he applies to a chief for them, and tempts him with his wares

The head of the family usually eats alone; his wives and slaves have also their separate tables. Before we taste food we always wash our hands: indeed our cleanliness on all occasions is extreme

I might say my sufferings were great: but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favourite of Heaven

She left me at the house of a very rich farmer. I was then, as I should judge, not less than one hundred and forty miles from my native place, separated from all my relations and acquaintance. At this place my mother took her farewel of me, and set out for her own country

In consequence of this rupture, my mother left her husband and country, and travelled away with her three children to the eastward. I was then five years old. She took not the least sustenance along with her, to support either herself or children.

My father had three wives. Polygamy was not uncommon in that country, especially among the rich, as every man was allowed to keep as many wives as he could maintain.

My good Master was exceeding glad to see me, telling me that I was like one arose from the Dead, for he thought I had been Dead a great many Years, having heard nothing of me for almost Thirteen Years

I endeavour'd to make my Escape the second Time

 ON Monday, 25th Day of December, 1747, with the leave of my Master

livingwithoutGodorhopeintheworld

Iwenttohimheputtheviolinintomyhand^whichpleasedmemuch,and,applyingclose,Ilearnedveryfast,notonlytoplay,buttodanetf

Iselfastronginclinationtolearnthemusic.Iwenthome,andinformedmysister*thatIhadratherlearntoplayuponmusicthangotoatrade.