[Aunt Phillis’s Cabin by Mary H. Eastman]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Phillis’s Cabin CHAPTER XXVI 63/119
He warn't hurt; couldn't hurt him. "Master he got up, looked round at me.
'Billy,' says he, 'give me the other horse, and you take care of the new saddle on this other poor fellow.' "Did you ever hear de like ?" added Billy Lee, "thinking of de saddle when de balls was a flyin most in our eyes.
But it's always de same wid master. He thinks of every thing." I agree with the humane jurist quoted by Mrs.Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him." She thinks slavery is worse still; but when "I think of every thing," I am forced to differ from her. The most of our Southern slaves are happy, and kindly cared for; and for those who are not, there is hope for the better.
But when a man is hung up by the neck until he is dead, he is done for.
As far as I can see, there is nothing that can be suggested to better his condition. I have no wish to uphold slavery.
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