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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin

CHAPTER VI
12/17

He told me he saw them on board, and watched the ship as she disappeared from his sight.

At last he could not detect the smallest trace of her, and then such a feeling of intense satisfaction occupied his breast as had been a stranger there until that time.

'Is it possible that they are gone, and I am no longer to be plagued with them?
They are free, and I am free, too.' He could hardly give vent to his feelings of relief on the occasion." "And are they such trouble to you, Arthur ?" asked Abel.
"No, indeed," said Arthur, "not the least.

My father treats them well, and they appear to be as well off as the working classes generally are.

I see rules to regulate the conduct of the master and slave in Scripture, but I see no where the injunction to release them; nor do I find laid down the sin of holding them.


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