The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

188 THE STORY OF MY LIFE.
I believed Mr. Henderson's assertion, that his slaves were
never whipped, and, as the months went by, and the abject
and hopeless condition of the poor creatures, many of whomn
I came to know and to regard with friendly feelings, sank
deeper and deeper into my heart, it was my hourly solace
that their lot was a little less terrible than that of slaves on
other plantations, - for they were never whipped. But
there came a day, the horrible experience of which haunted
me for years, and the memory of which an eternity can
never efface, when I learned to the contrary.