Incidents in the life of a slave girl.: Written by herself. Edited by L. Maria Child.

16 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
love thy neighbor as thyself." "Whatsoever ye would
that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto
them." But I was her slave, and I suppose she did
not recognlize me as her neighbor. I would give much
to blot out from my memory that one great wrong.
As a child, I loved my mistress; and, looking back on
the happy days I spent with her, I try to think with
less bitterness of this act of injustice. While I was
with her, she taught me to read and spell; and for
this privilege, whilh so re falls to the lot of a
slave, I bless her memory.
She possessed but few slaves; and at her death
those were all distributed among her relatives. Five
of them were my grandmother's children, and had
shared the same milk that nourished her mother's
children. Notwithstanding my grandmothler's long
and faithful service to her owners, not one of her chlildren escaped the auction block. These God-breathing.
machines are no more, in the sight of their masters,
than the cotton they plant,-or —t ie horses they ten-.