There is no evidence in all the valley of the Nile that the negro race ever attained a higher degree of civilization than is at present exhibited in Congo and Ashantee.

I mention this, not from any feeling hostile to that race, but simply to controvert an opinion very prevalent in some parts of the United States." It seemed impossible to know Phillis without feeling for her sentiments of the highest respect.

The blood of the freeman and the slave mingled in her veins; her well-regulated mind slowly advanced to a conclusion; but once made, she rarely changed it.
Phillis would have been truly happy to have obtained her own freedom, and that of her husband and children: she scorned the idea of running away, or of obtaining it otherwise than as a gift from her owner.

She was a firm believer in the Bible, and often pondered on the words of the angel, "Return and submit thyself to thy mistress." She had on one occasion accompanied her master and Mrs.Weston to the North, where she was soon found out by some of that disinterested class of individuals called Abolitionists.

In reply to the question, "Are you free ?" there was but a moment's hesitation; her pride of heart gave way to her inherent love of truth, "I'll tell no lie," she answered; "I am a slave!" "Why do you not _take_ your freedom ?" was the rejoinder.