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Such men feel in conscience bound to ask of this nation three thing

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

While hunting him they shot another Negro dead in his tracks for refusing to stop when ordered to do so

Scene of lynching at Clanton, Alabama, August 1891.

that Negroes had to be killed to avenge their assaults upon women. There could be framed no possible excuse more harmful to the Negro and more unanswerable if true in its sufficiency for the white man.

The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him.

Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death, Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath

O black slave singers, gone, forgot, unfamed,

Such are the notes that men have sung Going to valorous deeds; such tones there were That helped make history when Time was young.

and sometimes the song itself is also sung by the dancers.

soon became established favorites among the whites

know that some are too much brutalized by slavery to feel the humiliation of their position; but many slaves feel it most acutely, and shrink from the memory of it.

He tried his utmost to corrupt the pure principles my grandmother had instilled. He peopled my young mind with unclean images, such as only a vile monster could think of

We 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.

On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to work at his trade, and manage his own affairs. His strongest wish was to purchase his children;

“I am glad to see that you have money,” said Henry, “you are thereby wellqualified for your mission.

 “Andy,” said Henry, “let us have a word of prayer first!”

So he may, and what is all that to me? I don't gain anything by it, and—

Whyyou speak of your Negro slaves as if speaking of equals

Mrs. Ballard tookoccasion to administer to the maid severities she had never experienced at thehands of her mistress, giving her at one time a severe slap on the cheek,calling her an “impudent jade.”

Amutual attachment appeared to exist between them, the maid apparentlydisinclined to leave the mistress, who seemed to keep her as near her personas possible

 MY master had family worship, night and morning. At night the slaves were called in to attend; but in the mornings they had to be at their work, and master did all the praying.

My master had repeatedly told him not to attempt to whip Randall,

I have often heard him declare that no white man should ever whip him -- that he would die first.

Though the field was some distance from the house, I could hear every crack of the whip, and every groan and cry of my poor mother. I remained at the door, not daring to venture any further. The cold chills ran over me, and I wept aloud. After giving her ten lashes, the sound of the whip ceased, and I returned Page 16to my bed, and found no consolation but in my tears.

Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

. The meanest slave was put fully at ease in her presence, and none left without feeling better for having seen her

I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at the time; and this, too, in the midst of her crying children, pleading for their mother's release. He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity. Added to his cruelty, he was a profane swearer. It was enough to chill the blood and stiffen the hair of an ordinary man to hear him talk.

Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, its mother is taken from it, and hired out on some farm a considerable distance off, and the child is placed under the care of an old woman, too old for field labor.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

'Intellect,' whispered some one near. 'Oat's it honey. What's dat got to do with women's rights or niggers' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, would n't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?'

have heard the bible and have_ learned that Eve caused man to sin. Well, if woman upset the world, do give her a chance to set it right side up again

can't read, but I can hear.

have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about. the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as rnuch too, if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now.

Many of you are bound to us, not only by the ties of a common humanity, but we are connected by the more tender relations of parents, wives, husbands, children, brothers, and sisters, and friends.

It is in your power so to torment the God-cursed slaveholders, that they will be glad to let you go free.

en masse

neither God; nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral; intellectual and physical that promises success

Slavery! How much misery is comprehended in that single word. What mind is there that does not shrink from its direful effects?

They think because they hold us in their infernal chains of slavery, that we wish to be white, or of their color--but they are dreadfully deceived--we wish to be just as it pleased our Creator to have made us, and no avaricious and unmerciful wretches, have any business to make slaves of, or hold us in slavery. How would they like for us to make slaves of, and hold them in cruel slavery, and murder them as they do us?--

While the Spaniards are running about upon the field of battle cutting each other's throats, has not the Lord an afflicted and suffering people in the midst of them, whose cries and groans in consequence of oppression are continually pouring into the ears of the God of justice? Would they not cease to cut Page 8 each other's throats, if they could? But how can they? They very support which they draw from government to aid them in perpetrating such enormities, does it not arise in a great degree from the wretched victims of oppression among them?

All persons who are acquainted with history, and particularly the Bible, who are not blinded by the God of this world,

el hymns. None of the hymns carries the name of author or composer, and some have new titles, but the well-known hymns, such as those of Watts or Wesley, can be iden- tifie

uals, but they were careful to weed out songs they regarded as trashy. Again and again, congregations were warned not to sing "hymns of their own composin

n. Were the other hymns too humble for the proud, new, AME denomination, which was determined to "exhibit to the Christian world [that its] rules of government and articles of faith" would measure up to the highest standard

coloured people get together, and sing for hours together, short scraps of disjointed affirmations, pledges, or prayers, lengthened with long repetition choruses

n. In his writings he expresses concern about the "emotional natures" of his people, many of them ex- slaves, being swallowed up in cold, intellectual rit

The land of errors, and Egyptain gloom: 5: Father of mercy, 'twas thy gracious hand Brought me in safety from those dark abodes.

5: Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. -14- 000190000

Does not slavery itself depress the mind, and extinguish all its fire and every noble sentiment? But, above all, what advantages do not a refined people possess over those who are rude and uncultivated.

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

they should not have me again, and so paid them Ten Dollars for me, adding, that he would not have them kill any Person Page 8 hereafter