At the end of the eight months, Master Hugh refused longer to allow me to remain with Mr.
Gardiner.

The circumstance which led to his taking me away, was a brutal outrage, committed upon me by the white apprentices of the ship-yard.
The fight was a desperate one, and I came out of it most shockingly mangled.

I was cut and bruised in sundry places, and my left eye was nearly knocked out of its socket.

The facts, leading to this barbarous outrage upon me, illustrate a phase of slavery destined to become an important element in the overthrow of the slave system, and I may, therefore state them with some minuteness.

That phase is this: _the conflict of slavery with the interests of the white mechanics and laborers of the south_.