The brief narrative I here introduce to the public, consists of outline notes originally thrown together to guide my memory when lecturing on this part of the subject of slavery.

This will account for its style, and will also show that the work is not full.
The question may be asked, Why I have published anything so long after my escape from slavery?
I answer I have been induced to do so on account of the increasing disposition to overlook the fact, that THE SIN of slavery lies in the chattel principle, or relation.

Especially have I felt anxious to save professing Christians, and my brethren in the ministry, from falling into a great mistake.

My feelings are always outraged when I hear them speak of "kind masters,"-- "Christian masters,"-- "the mildest form of slavery,"-- "well fed and clothed slaves," as extenuations of slavery; I am satisfied they either mean to pervert the truth, or they do not know what they say.

The being of slavery, its soul and body, lives and moves in the chattel principle, the property principle, the bill of sale principle; the cart-whip, starvation, and nakedness, are its inevitable consequences to a greater or less extent, warring with the dispositions of men.
There lies a skein of silk upon a lady's work-table.