I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
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My master had power and law on his side I had a determined will. There is might in each.
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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