Biography of an American BondmanR.F. Wallcut, 1856 - 104 sider |
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Abolitionist abroad AMERICAN BONDMAN Anglo-Saxon Anti-Slavery appearance arrival banks boat Boston Britain brothers Canada cane cause chains CHAPTER colored person conductor Cook cotton COUNTY OF ST daughters dear Doctor dollar driver Ellen Craft England Enoch Price escape Europe farm feeling felt flog freedom friends fugi fugitive slave gave gentleman George Thompson give hands heard heart human Jim Crow journey labor lady Lake Erie land lecture liberty literary London Louis master meeting Missouri morning mother negro negro-driver negro-whip nigger night notes Orleans overseer passed passenger plantation Randall resolved ride scarcely seated servant shin-plasters Sketches of Places slaveholders slavery sold soon steamboat steamer sugar taken thing Thomas Carlyle thought told took town travelled Uncle Tom's Cabin whip William and Ellen WILLIAM WELLS BROWN wish woman Worcester young slave
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Side 13 - I should return to the service of my earthly master, " for he who knoweth his Master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, and thus have I chastened you.
Side 98 - In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at office in the city of St. Louis, this 25th day of April, eighteen hundred and; fifty-four. "WM. J. HAMMOND, Clerk.
Side 54 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Side 97 - Merritt, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that he signed, sealed and delivered the said instrument as his free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
Side 97 - STATE OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF ST. Louis, ss "I, Wm. J. Hammond, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the county aforesaid, certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of the Deed of Emancipation from Enoch Price to Sanford Higgins, (alias Wm.
Side 54 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think: They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Side 84 - That a man who was a slave for the first twenty years of his life, and who has never had a day's schooling, should produce such a book as this, cannot but astonish those who speak disparagingly of the African race.
Side 8 - I have often heard him declare, that no white man should ever whip him — that he would die first. Cook, from the time that he came upon the plantation, had frequently declared, that he could and would flog any nigger that was put into the field to work under him. My master had repeatedly told him not to attempt to whip Randall, but he was determined to try it. As soon as he was left sole dictator, he thought the time had come to put his threats into execution. He soon began to find fault with Randall,...
Side 9 - The others rushed upon him with their clubs, and beat him over the head and face, until they succeeded in tying him. He was then taken to the barn, and tied to a beam. Cook gave him over one hundred lashes with a heavy cowhide, had him washed with salt and water, and left him tied during the day. The next day he was untied, and taken to a blacksmith's shop, and had a ball and chain attached to his leg. He was compelled to labor in the field, and perform the same amount of work that the other hands...
Side 30 - As we travelled towards a land of liberty, my heart would at times leap for joy. At other times, being, as I was, almost constantly on my feet, I felt as though I could travel no further. But when I .thought of slavery, with its democratic whips — its republican chains — its evangelical blood-hounds, and its religious slave-holders — when I thought of all this paraphernalia of American democracy and religion behind...