"You are in a free state; they cannot force you to the South, if you will take the offers we make you, and leave your master." "You are Abolitionists, I 'spose ?" asked Phillis.
"We are," they said, "and we will help you off." "I want none of your help," said Phillis.

"My husband and children are at home; but if they wasn't, I am an honest woman, and am not in the habit of _taking_ any thing.

I'll never _take_ my freedom.

If my master would give it to me, and the rest of us, I should be thankful.

I am not going to begin stealing, and I fifty years of age." An eye-witness described the straightening of her tall figure, and the indignant flashing of her eye, also the discomfited looks of her northern friends.
I have somewhere read of a fable of Iceland.