Every moment they spend in my school, they were under this terrible liability; and, in this respect, I was sharer with them.

Their minds had been cramped and starved by their cruel masters; the light of education had been completely excluded; and their hard earnings had been taken to educate their master's children.

I felt a delight in circumventing the tyrants, and in blessing the victims of their curses.
The year at Mr.Freeland's passed off very smoothly, to outward seeming.
Not a blow was given me during the whole year.

To the credit of Mr.
Freeland--irreligious though he was--it must be stated, that he was the best master I ever had, until I became my own master, and assumed for myself, as I had a right to do, the responsibility of my own existence and the exercise of my own powers.

For much of the happiness--or absence of misery--with which I passed this year with Mr.Freeland, I am indebted to the genial temper and ardent friendship of my brother slaves.