... coursing in the veins of American slaves? I have spoken of the pains slaveholders take to give their slaves a bad opinion of the north; but, notwithstanding this, intelligent slaves are aware that ... that I did not live on a distant plantation, but in a town not so large that the inhabitants were ignorant of each other's affairs Bad as are the laws and customs in a slaveholding community, the ... unhappiness, was the fact that my brother William was purchased by the same family My father, by his nature, as well as by the habit of transacting business as a skillful mechanic, had more of the...