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“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.”
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“At length I hated the house in which I lodged, because God's most holy name was blasphemed in it”
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“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!”
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“I saw many cruel punishments inflicted on the slaves in the short time I stayed here.”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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