I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.