Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
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.
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.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.