Colonizing them would be equally difficult, for the most of them would refuse to go to Africa; and if I have not the right to hold them slaves, I certainly have not a right to force them into another country.

Some of them would be willing and glad to come to the North, but some would object.

My father set a house-servant free; he was absent a year, and returned voluntarily to his old condition.
Mark had got some Abolition notions in his head, and my father told him he might have his free papers, and go: I have told you the result.

The fact is, Abel, you Yankees don't stand very well with our slaves.

They seem to consider you a race of pedlars, who come down upon them in small bodies for their sins, to wheedle away all their little hoardings.