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"Like a door-lock on a prayer-book!" "No matter! They would be worth the worth of themselves!" "You would have to make the wall so high, there would be no light in the house!" persisted Richard. "Tut, man! did you never hear of a joke? All I say is, that if you'll come and work with me I don't need to slave more than I like; I've got a few pounds in the bank! if you'll work, I'll teach you.
Therefore, whenever commenced, I cannot but wish success to all slave insurrections.... Rather than see men wearing their chains, in a cowardly and servile spirit, I would as an advocate of peace, much rather see them breaking the head of the tyrant with their chains.
As soon as the cadi came in, he caned one of his slaves that deserved it. The slave made horrid shouts, which were heard in the streets; the barber thought it was I that cried out, and that I was maltreated. Prepossessed with this thought, he screamed out most fearfully, rent his clothes, threw dust upon his head, and called the neighbourhood to his assistance.
"As good a way as yours. You have behaved to me as if I were the vilest of prostitutes, and yesterday you seemed to think I was a brute beast, the slave of my mother. You should have written to me in person, and without the intervention of so vile an agent; I should have replied in the same way, and you need not have been afraid that you would be deceived."
I have at this moment a tenant, Carolus by name, on some land I own in Natal, now a well-to-do man, who was for many years about twenty, if I remember right a Boer slave. During those years, he told me, he worked from morning till night, and the only reward he received was two calves. He finally escaped into Natal. If other evidence is needed it is not difficult to find, so I will quote a little.
She was known to have had a clever barrister cousin who for some reasons best known to himself had of late kept in the background ill-health, said some; an unfortunate love affair, said another. But his pamphlet on the White Slave Traffic on the Continent showed that he was still at work.
It has been asserted that a people can never entirely outstep the boundaries of justice and of reason in those affairs which are more peculiarly its own; and that consequently full power may fearlessly be given to the majority by which it is represented. But this language is that of a slave.
Swallow, that if a master reclaimed a slave in this county that there would be any trouble in carrying out the law?" "No, sir," said Swallow. "The county authorities are all Democrats and would obey the law. Suppose, sir, that you were frankly to put before me the whole case, relying on my secrecy. Where is the man?" "Let me then tell you my story.
The new slave had forced open the lid of the chest and stolen the whole possessions of the orphans of the man who, to gratify his own vanity, had brought him into the house.
"I would not consent to be made a slave even for the sake of the country. But the wages had to be raised, and having raised them I expect to get proper value for my money. If anything has to be given away, let it be given away, so that the people should know what it is that they receive."
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