They were too much hardened by lifelong everyday familiarity with slavery to notice that there was anything else in the exhibition that invited comment.

This was what slavery could do, in the way of ossifying what one may call the superior lobe of human feeling; for these pilgrims were kind-hearted people, and they would not have allowed that man to treat a horse like that.
I wanted to stop the whole thing and set the slaves free, but that would not do.

I must not interfere too much and get myself a name for riding over the country's laws and the citizen's rights roughshod.

If I lived and prospered I would be the death of slavery, that I was resolved upon; but I would try to fix it so that when I became its executioner it should be by command of the nation.
Just here was the wayside shop of a smith; and now arrived a landed proprietor who had bought this girl a few miles back, deliverable here where her irons could be taken off.

They were removed; then there was a squabble between the gentleman and the dealer as to which should pay the blacksmith.