The study of Christianity resulted-as it ever must, when unbiassed-in his discarding with abhorrence the iniquities inherent in slavery, which in ignorance and depravity he had assisted to perpetrate. Mitchell was brought under the power of God's converting grace. The wife and the child are still the wife and the child, how far and how long soever they be parted from husband and parent.Īfter leaving the unholy business, Mr. It has since been a source of grief to him to recollect the part he took in ordering and superintending the harassing and flogging of men, women, and children, and in separating for life those dearest to each other, whose ties of kinship man has no power to sever. Hence he is personally conversant with all the disgusting details of plantation slave-life, of the slave-pen, and of the auction-block. During the last five years of the time, the entire management of the business In this service he misspent twelve precious years of his life, and became inured to the infliction of the cruelties attendant upon man-stealing and slave-driving. It affords a glimpse into slave morals, that though our Author was freeborn, and, in consequence of his mother being an Indian, legally exempt from bondage, it was necessary to provide expressly, in the indenture by which he was bound, against his being kidnapped or en-snared into slavery. His master was also a heartless trader in human beings. By the local authorities of Guildford County, in that state, he was bound apprentice to a planter, whose laud was cultivated by the unrequited toil of a company of his enslaved fellow-creatures, whose labour was enforced by the whip, and whose faults, real or fictitious, were punished by torture. In early life he was left a destitute orphan, and had but few educational advantages. THE Author of the following work is a gentleman of colour, who was born and reared in North Carolina, United States.
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