I wanted all the other slaves to see him thus, and feel as happy as I did. With my mind's eye, I could see my Redeemer hanging upon the cross for me.
The eyes of my mind were open, and I saw things as I never did before. Now, instead of looking with my real eyes to see my Saviour, I felt him in me, and I was happy. When I had come to this, I felt my guilt give way, and thought that I was a new being.
In the midst of my troubles, I felt that if God would have mercy on me, I should never sin again. O, my readers, the anguish of my heart! I thought the whole world was on me, and I must die and be lost. I began to see the offended justice of God. I felt so for many days and nights.Īt last, I gave myself up to the Lord, to do what he would with me, for I was a great sinner. I felt so about it I wanted to die, and thought it would be just in God to kill me, and I prayed that he would kill me, for I did not want to live to sin against him any more. little boy that ever lived, and that was the reason Jesus would not talk to me. To feel very sorry that He would not come and talk with me and then I felt that I was the worst. I was then between ten and eleven years old, and I continued to look for Him until I began Being very sickly, my greatest wish was to live with Christ in heaven, and so I used to go into the woods and lie upon my back, and pray that he would come and take me to himself-really expecting to see Him with my bodily eyes. I thought he would talk with me, if I wished it, and give me what I asked for. At that time, my ideas of Jesus were the same as those of the other slaves. When I was a child, my mother used to tell me to look to Jesus, and that He who protected the widow and fatherless would take care of me also. I WAS born a slave, and owned, with eighty- one others, by a man named Edloe, and among them all, only myself learned to either read or write. To the children and descendants of that noble band of Anti-Slavery followers, and to the friends of humanity, I present these my experiences, in the name of God and Truth. Slavery, we say, is dead but the rising generations will ask: What was it? This little work, which will be seen in the back part of the book, Iĭesire to keep in print, for it has in it what I know to be truthful information on the subject of Slavery. With these biographical sketches, I have added for preservation, a pamphlet of sketches issued by me in 1855, on the "Peculiar Institution", with an introduction by Samuel May, Jr. They consist mainly of my own experience and observation in the South and North, as a slave and freeman. These sketches of my life, since Emancipation, given in a simple style, illustrate, I think, some phases of the "Southern Question". Though I have endeavored to improve myself, yet I cannot boast of an education, as my readers will doubtless see. IN giving the following sketches of my life to the public, I sincerely hope that literary defects, and errors of style, will be kindly overlooked. Plantation life - Virginia - Prince George County - History -įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.Slavery - Virginia - Prince George County - History - 19th.Slaves - Virginia - Prince George County - Social life and.Freedmen - Massachusetts - Boston - Biography.Slaves - Virginia - Prince George County - Biography.African American Baptists - Massachusetts - Boston.African American clergy - Massachusetts - Boston - Biograph.African Americans - Virginia - Prince George County.Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998
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