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They at length said, that they had learned I had been in a 'scrape', and that I was to be examined before my master; and if their information proved false, I should not be hurt.

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They at length said, that they had learned I had been in a 'scrape', and that I was to be examined before my master; and if their information proved false, I should not be hurt.

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It went hard enough with me then, when I could look back to no period at which I enjoyed a sufficiency. It was tenfold harder after living in Master Hugh's family, where I always had enough to eat, and of that which was good.

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It went hard enough with me then, when I could look back to no period at which I enjoyed a sufficiency. It was tenfold harder after living in Master Hugh's family, where I always had enough to eat, and of that which was good.

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He then went to a large gum-tree, and with his axe cut three large switches, and, after trimming them up neatly with his pocket-knife, he ordered me to take off my clothes. I made him no answer, but stood with my clothes on. He repeated his order. I still made him no answer, nor did I move to strip myself. Upon this he rushed at me with the fierceness of a tiger, tore off my clothes, and lashed me till he had worn out his switches, cutting me so savagely as to leave the marks visible for a long time after.

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He then went to a large gum-tree, and with his axe cut three large switches, and, after trimming them up neatly with his pocket-knife, he ordered me to take off my clothes. I made him no answer, but stood with my clothes on. He repeated his order. I still made him no answer, nor did I move to strip myself. Upon this he rushed at me with the fierceness of a tiger, tore off my clothes, and lashed me till he had worn out his switches, cutting me so savagely as to leave the marks visible for a long time after.

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He argued that if one slave refused to be corrected, and escaped with his life, the other slaves would soon copy the example; the result of which would be, the freedom of the slaves, and the enslavement of the whites.

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He argued that if one slave refused to be corrected, and escaped with his life, the other slaves would soon copy the example; the result of which would be, the freedom of the slaves, and the enslavement of the whites.

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The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

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The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.