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"I early accustomed myself to look for the hand of God in the minutest occurrence, and to learn from it a lesson of morality and religion; and in this light every circumstance I have related was to me of importance. After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God?'"

"The abolition of slavery would be in reality an universal good. Tortures, murder and every other imaginable barbarity and iniquity, are practised upon the poor slaves with impunity. I hope the slave trade will be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand."

"I hope to have the satisfaction of seeing the renovation of liberty and justice resting on the British government, to vindicate the honour of our common nature... May the time come---at least the speculation to me is pleasing---when the sable people shall gratefully commemorate the auspicious aera of extensive freedom."

"...the Governor, understanding that I was of a religious turn, wished to know of what religion I was; I told him I was a protestant of the Church of England...the Governor spoke to me on it again, and said that he would, if I chose, as he thought I might be of service in converting my countrymen to the Gospel faith, get me sent out as a missionary to Africa."

"It was given me at that time to know what it was to be born again"

"He began to discourse with me; and, as I desired to love the Lord, his conversation rejoiced me greatly; and indeed I had never heard before the love of Christ to believers set forth in such a manner, and in so clear a point of view."

“At length I hated the house in which I lodged, because God's most holy name was blasphemed in it”

“I had the fears of death hourly upon me, and shuddered at the thoughts of meeting the grim king of terrors in the natural state I then was in, and was exceedingly doubtful of a happy eternity if I should die in it… many… began to call on the good God of heaven for his help; and in the time of our utter need he heard us, and against hope or human probability delivered us!”

“I saw many cruel punishments inflicted on the slaves in the short time I stayed here.”

“With a light heart I bade Montserrat farewell, and never had my feet on it since; and with it I bade adieu to… dreadful instruments of torture; adieu to the offensive sight of the violated chastity of the sable females, which has too often accosted my eyes; adieu to oppressions… I wished for a grateful and thankful heart to praise the Lord God on high for all his mercies!”

“And in the midst of my distress, while the dreadful surfs were dashing with unremitting fury among the rocks, I remembered the Lord, though fearful that I was undeserving of forgiveness, and I thought that as he had often delivered he might yet deliver; and, calling to mind the many mercies he had shewn me in times past, they gave me some small hope that he might still help me.”

“Accordingly he signed the manumission that day, so that, before night, I who had been a slave in the morning, trembling at the will of another, was become my own master, and completely free. I thought this was the happiest day I had ever experienced; and my joy was still heightened by the blessings and prayers of the sable race, particularly the aged, to whom my heart had ever been attached with reverence.”

Listened to George Whitfield preach

“Nor was such usage as this confined to particular places or individuals; for, in all the different islands in which I have been (and I have visited no less than fifteen) the treatment of the slaves was nearly the same... Such a tendency has the slave-trade to debauch men's minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity!”

“While I was thus employed by my master I was often a witness to cruelties of every kind, which were exercised on my unhappy fellow slaves.”

“I considered that trials and disappointments are sometimes for our good, and I thought God might perhaps have permitted this in order to teach me wisdom and resignation; for he had hitherto shadowed me with the wings of his mercy, and by his invisible but powerful hand brought me the way I knew not.”

“…as I could not get any right among men here I hoped I should hereafter in Heaven…”