Slave Life in Georgia: Illustrated Black History Collection

by John Brown

laboring for the benefit of another man. But my firm belief is, that, if they were set free to-morrow, the most part of them would work for the planters ten times better for fair wages than they do for cow-hidings, and that the masters would find themselves much better off. It is all very well to talk about kind masters.

think there must be something very wrong in slave-holding; and as the dollars slipped away, his notion of the system’s being wrong would grow bigger and bigger, till he would be so full of it he could not but abandon it. And this is what I should like folks—especially the anti-slavery folks—to understand better than it seems to me they