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“I had been thus engaged for some minutes, when suddenly a boy entered the room and informed me that dinner was ready. My heart leaped for joy at this intelligence.”
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“I was now left entirely alone for several hours, and had time to look about me and make up my mind as to my future course.”
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“This despair, into which I was thus thrown, grew more intense with each succeeding hour.”
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“I felt as if I were in a land of strangers, a country of unknown people who spoke an unknown tongue.”
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“Soon after nightfall the dead body of a slave, who had died of exhaustion in the prison-yard, was brought in and laid down upon the bare floor.”
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“I resolved never to be taken alive; for I believed that to be carried back to slavery was tantamount to going to hell.”
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“I saw this notorious character take up my well-worn pencil-case, examine it, laughingly ask the price, and then fill it with tobacco.”
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“The negroes, in whose minds superstition readily takes root, firmly believed that ‘pats baggage’ would bring us good luck.”
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“Never did they return from their expeditions but they brought back tidings of licentiousness on the part of the white men.”
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“The sobriety of the blacks, their simplicity of thought and kindness of heart, appealed to me with peculiar force.”
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“The fugitive slave bills were passed, and the danger of capture by slaveholders greatly increased.”
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“His was an odious character; I felt that I could almost kill him if I had an opportunity.” FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT FORBIDDEN LOVE
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“I was now convinced that there were men in the state of New York who, without the least compunction, would as soon sell a fugitive slave as they would a horse or an ox.”
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“The man who had kindly written the letter would have given shelter to a were-wolf, much more to a poor panting fugitive like myself.”
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“Though I had been in ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave,’ and thought I had witnessed much of the cruelty and wickedness of slaveholders, I was little prepared for the revelations of the store.”
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“Time moves slowly with a slave, and days are ages.”
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“The slaves in that part of the country led a rather more comfortable life than those in Maryland, Virginia, or the Carolinas.”
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“I was determined that nothing they could say or do should induce me to kill or injure the poor dog.”
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“They did all they could to excite his anger, and between them they completely infuriated the poor man.”
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“He patted the plank of the bridge, and comically informed them that they ‘would occasionally see him bounding over it.'”
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“When they had taken off his exterior garments and drawn over his loins a human skullcap, a pair of loose trowsers, and a coarse shirt without a spear or collar.”
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“Each one was thoroughly armed; and a more villainous looking set of desperadoes I never beheld than these wild sons of the wilderness.”
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“It so happened that a number of white men had assembled there, either attracted by curiosity, or from a desire to learn something respecting the laws and regulations of slavery.”