![]() Indeed, defects are so apparent it requires no skilful hand to expose them. My humble position and frank confession of errors will, I hope, shield me from severe criticism. I do not pretend to divulge every transaction in my own life, which the unprejudiced would declare unfavorable in comparison with treatment of legal bondmen I have purposely omitted what would most provoke shame in our good anti-slavery friends at home. My mistress was wholly imbued with SOUTHERN principles. ![]() I would not from these motives even palliate slavery at the South, by disclosures of its appurtenances North. ![]() Deserted by kindred, disabled by failing health, I am forced to some experiment which shall aid me in maintaining myself and child with- out extinguishing this feeble life. It is not for such these crude narrations appear. IN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and culti- vated, the pleasure supplied by abler pens. ![]() Grow faint or fierce, and pray and curse by turns That hell’s temptations, clad in heavenly guise And armed with might, lie evermore in wait Along life’s path, giving assault to all.”–HOLLAND. ![]() Virtue is crucified, and nails and spears Draw guiltless blood that sorrow sits and drinks At sweetest hearts, till all their life is dry That gentle spirits on the rack of pain That care has iron crowns for many brows That Calvaries are everywhere, whereon ![]()
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