Not one of them was self-moved in the matter.

They all wanted to be free; but the serious thought of running away, had not entered into{216} their minds, until I won them to the undertaking.

They all were tolerably well off--for slaves--and had dim hopes of being set free, some day, by their masters.

If any one is to blame for disturbing the quiet of the slaves and slave-masters of the neighborhood of St.Michael's, _I am the man_.

I claim to be the instigator of the high crime (as the slaveholders regard it) and I kept life in it, until life could be kept in it no longer.
Pending the time of our contemplated departure out of our Egypt, we met often by night, and on every Sunday.