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With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.