I have the satisfaction of knowing that I am only the father of one slave.

She is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh; poor unfortunate child.

She was the first and shall be the last slave that ever I will father, for chains and slavery on this earth.
FOOTNOTES: [2] The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community.

Some refusing to associate with others whom they deem beneath them in point of character, color, condition, or the superior importance of their respective masters..