I shall make use of you as a means of exposing the character of the American church and clergy--and as a means of bringing this guilty nation, with yourself, to repentance.

In doing this, I entertain no malice toward you personally.

There is no roof under which you would be more safe than mine, and there is nothing in my house which you might need for your comfort, which I would not readily grant.

Indeed, I should esteem it a privilege to set you an example as to how mankind ought to treat each other.
_I am your fellow-man, but not your slave_.
THE NATURE OF SLAVERY.

Extract from a Lecture on Slavery, at Rochester, December 1, 1850 More than twenty years of my life were consumed in a state of slavery.
My childhood was environed by the baneful peculiarities of the slave system.