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My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

with a scrap of bacon on her

The best dancer appeared to be considered the one who could whoop the loudest, jump the farthest, and utter the most excruciating noise.

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat,

Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain

Drawn up and signed by the proper parties, wherein Epps acknowledged he

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

my situation, however, the more I became

Eliza, stop crying, You let sorrow take over you; you will drown in it

woollyheads and silvergrays, and am unable to understand

under other circumstances and other influences,

12 Years a Slave

considerable amount in consideration of his services in

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

I don't want to survive, I want to live.

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.

Death was far less terrible than the living prospect that was before us

Let not those who have never been placed in like circumstances judge me harshly

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

Adroitly that there was

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear - dogs, alligators or men!

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It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,

Not by human dwellings
not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them.

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.