After waiting, however, nearly twelvemonths longer, and seeing the poor woman's spirits daily sinking under the sickening influence of hope deferred, I resolved on a final attempt in her behalf, through the intervention of the Moravian Missionaries, and of the Governor of Antigua. * A West Indian phrase: to fasten or tie up. I wished at that time to attend a Sunday School taught by Mr. Curtin, but he would not receive me without a written note from my master, granting his permission. Was it not there she hoped to spend her latter years in domestic tranquillity with her husband, free from the lash of the taskmaster? A Christian child's prayer is Christian prayer recited primarily by children that is typically short, rhyming, or has a memorable tune. When we drew near to England, the rheumatism seized all my limbs worse than ever, and my body was dreadfully swelled. I can say something on this point from my own knowledge. I---- said I was used as well as I deserved, and that I ought to be punished for running away. 5 and 16. and the Mauritius horrors recently unveiled,**. This statement, which we are informed has appeared in many of the public papers, is COMPLETELY REFUTED in our Appendix, No. 74, p. 69. it was upon Dr. Coull's information that Mr. M'Queen founded this impudent contradiction of notorious facts, and this audacious libel of my personal character. I thought her very hard on me, and my heart rose up within me. When we were ill, let our complaint be what it might, the only medicine given to us was a great bowl of hot salt water, with salt mixed with it, which made us very sick. It would well become the character of the present Government to introduce a Bill into the Legislature making perpetual that freedom which the slave has acquired by his passage here, and thus to declare, in the most ample sense of the words, (what indeed we had long fondly believed to be the fact, though it now appears that we have been mistaken,) THAT NO SLAVE CAN EXIST WITHIN THE SHORES OF GREAT BRITAIN. It was then, however, my heavy lot to weep, weep, weep, and that for years; to pass from one. Both my master and mistress seemed to think that they had a right to ill-use them at their pleasure; and very often accompanied their commands with blows, whether the children were behaving well or ill. I might perhaps not inappropriately illustrate this point more fully by stating many cases which fell under my own personal observation, or became known to me through authentic sources, at the Cape of Good Hope--a colony where slavery assumes, as it is averred, a milder aspect than in any other dependency of the empire where it exists; and I could shew, from the judicial records of that colony, received by me within these few weeks, cases scarcely inferior in barbarity to the worst of those to which I have just specially referred; but to do so would lead me too far from the immediate purpose of this pamphlet, and extend it to an inconvenient length. I lived a good many months with these poor people, and they nursed me, and did all that lay in their power to serve me. "Oh, my mother! Wood George Wyke After that, when we came up to live in Leigh Street, Mrs. Wood sorted out five bags of clothes which we had used at sea, and also such as had been worn since we came on shore, for me and the cook to wash. Elizabeth the cook told her, that she did not think that I was able to stand to the tub, and that she had better hire a woman. My heart throbbed with grief and terror so violently, that I pressed my hands quite tightly across my breast, but I could not keep it still, and it continued to leap as though it would burst out of my body. The case having been submitted, by desire of the Anti-Slavery Committee, to the consideration of Dr. Lushington and Mr. left quotation marks are encoded as " and " * A dog is the 72nd part of a dollar. Moreover, is it not absurd to term the assertion of her natural rights by a slave,--even supposing her to have been kindly dealt with by her "owners," and treated in every respect the reverse of what Mary affirms to have been her treatment by Mr. Wood and his wife,--"the worst species of ingratitude?" Without implicitly adopting either the view of Mary Prince, or the unmeasured encomiums of their West India partizans, I am willing to believe them to be, on the whole, fair specimens of colonial character. He speaks of the liability he should incur, under the Consolidated Slave Law, of dealing with a free person as a slave. The Rev. This was the happiest period of my life; for I was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave, and too thoughtless and full of spirits to look forward to the days of toil and sorrow. Mr. M'Queen's statements, we regret to say, would lead many to believe that there are no deserted Negroes to assist; and that the case mentioned was a perfect fabrication. to have sometimes to beat his own wife or sister; but he must do so if ordered by his master. But the truth ought to be told of it; and what my eyes have seen I think it is my duty to relate; for few people in England know what slavery is. "I forgot to mention that it was at her own special request that she accompanied me to England--and also that she had a considerable sum of money with her, which she had saved in my service. Mrs. Williams was a kind-hearted good woman, and she treated all her slaves well. His wife was herself much afraid of him; and, during his stay at home, seldom dared to shew her usual kindness to the slaves. Those who have withheld their strictures have only themselves to blame. I then took courage and said that I could stand the floggings no longer; that I was weary of my life, and therefore I had run away to my mother; but mothers could only weep and mourn over their children, they could not save them from cruel masters--from the whip, the rope, and the cowskin. In the last place, I add my own testimony in behalf of this negro woman. Abstractedly from all legal technicalities, there is no real difference between thus compelling the return of the enfranchised negro, and trepanning a free native of England by delusive hopes into perpetual slavery. She shewed her none, but continued to strike her on the head and thrust the stick into her face, till she was herself exhausted, and her poor victim covered with blood. The angry slave-owner declared "that he would not move a finger about her in this country, or grant her manumission on any terms whatever; and that if she went back to the West Indies, she must take the consequences.". I had to curry the horse--to clean and feed him--and sometimes to ride him a little. Here perhaps we might safely leave the case to the judgment of the public; but as this negro woman's character, not the less valuable to her because her condition is so humble, has been so unscrupulously blackened by her late master, a party so much interested and inclined to place her in the worst point of view,--it is incumbent on me, as her advocate with the public, to state such additional testimony in her behalf as I can fairly and conscientiously adduce. Whatever be the subsequent lot that Providence may have in reserve for her, the seasonable sympathy thus manifested in her behalf, will neither be fruitlessly extended nor unthankfully received; while, in accordance with the benign scripture mandate, it will serve to mitigate and relieve, as far as human kindness can, the afflictions of "the stranger and the exile who is in our and within our gates. These unquestionable facts speak volumes.*. I felt sorry for my sins also. All footnotes are Thus I had great cause to bless God in my affliction. ** She came first to the Anti-Slavery Office in Aldermanbury, about the latter end of November 1828; and her case was referred to Mr. George Stephen to be investigated. We then shovelled up the salt in large heaps, and went down to the sea, where we washed the pickle from our limbs, and cleaned the barrows and shovels from the salt. But if true, or even partially true, how comes it that a person so correct in his family hours and arrangements as Mr. Wood professes to be, and who expresses so edifying a horror of licentiousness, could reconcile it to his conscience to keep in the bosom of his family so depraved, as well as so troublesome a character for at least thirteen years, and confide to her for long periods too the charge of his house and the care of his children--for such I shall shew to have been the facts? Whilst she was putting on us the new osnaburgs in which we were to be sold, she said, in a sorrowful voice, (I shall never forget it!) I told my mistress I was sick, and yet she has ordered me out of doors. "Oh, my poor slaves! More of this hereafter.--ED. My poor mother was both grieved and glad to see me; grieved because I had been so ill used, and glad because she had not seen me for a long, long while. **, ** The whole of this paragraph especially, is given as nearly as was possible in Mary's precise words. Boat School Classes. Mary's petition contained simply a brief statement of her case, and, among other things, mentioned the treatment she had received from Mr. and Mrs. Wood. That sometime before her baptism, on her being admitted a catechumen, preparatory to that holy ordinance, she brought a note from her owner, Mr. Wood, recommending her for religious instruction, &c.; 2. He was a carpenter and cooper to his trade; an honest, hard-working, decent black man, and a widower. Capt. I told him where I had been, and that I should never have gone away had I not been driven out by my owners. (See Note below. Mr. D---- had another slave called Ben. If such things are done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?--And what else then can Colonial Slavery possibly be, even in its best estate, but a system incurably evil and iniquitous?--I require no other data--I need add no further comment. I did not like to go back--I did not like to be idle. It said also that I left them of my own free will, because I was a free woman in England; and that, I was idle and would not do my work--which was not true. He was a tawny, cadaverous-looking man, with a dark aspect; and he had cut from his leather a scourge like a Russian knout, which he held in his hand, and was in the act of exercising on one of the naked children in an inner room: and this was the cause of the moans and cries we heard every day, and almost all day long. She treated me well, and gave me a good character when she left London.*. Panpipes. In hopes of inducing her to be steady to her husband, who was a free man, I gave him the house to occupy during our absence; but it appears the attachment was too loose to bind her, and he has taken another wife: so on that score I do her no injury.--In England she made her election, and quitted my family. Now I know from good authority that, * In elucidation of the circumstances above referred to, I subjoin the following extracts from the Report of the Birmingham Ladies' Society for 1830:--, "As a portion of the funds of this association has been appropriated to assist the benevolent efforts of a society which has for fifteen years afforded relief to distressed and deserted slaves in Antigua, it may not be uninteresting to our friends to learn the manner in which the agent of this society has been treated for simply obeying the command of our Saviour, by ministering, like the good Samaritan, to the distresses of the helpless and the desolate. "JOHN A. Her reply was so indistinct that it escaped me; but it was probably in the negative, for her purchaser rejoined, in a loud and harsh voice, 'Then I will teach you with the sjamboc,' (a whip made of the rhinoceros' hide.) J. Curtin, to whom, among other acquaintances of Mr. Wood's in this country, the entire proof sheets of this pamphlet had been sent for inspection. This may be West Indian ethics, but it will scarcely be received as sound doctrine in Europe. I think it was about ten years I had worked in the salt ponds at Turk's Island, when my master left off business, and retired to a house he had in Bermuda, leaving his son to succeed him in the island. If the pleasure of thwarting the benevolent wishes of the Anti-Slavery Society in behalf of the deserted negro, be an additional motive with Mr. Wood, it will not much mend his wretched plea. English marriage is not allowed to slaves; and no free man can marry a slave woman. I---- and his wife, and that of Mr. D----, to whom conduct of peculiar atrocity is ascribed. My poor mother had never been on the sea before, and she was so ill, that she lost her senses, and it was long before she came quite to herself again. It was a sad parting; one went one way, one another, and our poor mammy went home with nothing.**. "I remain, Dear Madam, her's has been a sad life, and continues so to this day. **. "J. P.", I leave the preceding letter to be candidly weighed by the reader in opposition to the inculpatory allegations of Mr. Wood--merely remarking that Mr. Wood will find it somewhat difficult to impugn the evidence of Mr. Phillips, whose "upright," "unimpeached," and "unexceptionable" character, he has himself vouched for in unqualified terms, by affixing his signature to the testimonial published in the Weekly Register of Antigua in 1825. All single right and He went directly to Mr. Wood, but was informed that I was not to be sold. with a long cow-skin ***. However, Providence was very good to me, and I got many friends--especially some Quaker ladies, who hearing of my case, came and sought me out, and gave me good warm clothing and money. Mr. M'Queen's statements, we regret to say, would lead many to believe that there are no deserted Negroes to assist; and that the case mentioned was a perfect fabrication. Then I said, "Sir, this is not Turk's Island." He never keeps back the truth, and I think he has been the means of opening my eyes and ears much better to understand the word of God. She said, she supposed I thought myself a free woman, but I was not: and if I did not do it directly I should be instantly turned out of doors. No fact of importance has been omitted, and not a single circumstance or sentiment has been added. There could not have been a finer subject for an able painter than this unhappy group. I liked to look at her and watch all her doings, for her's was the only friendly face I had as yet seen, and I felt glad that she was there. The way in which I made my money was this.--When my master and mistress went from home, as they sometimes did, and left me to take care of the house and premises, I had a good deal of time to myself, and made the most of it. But when we are very young, death always seems a great way off, and it would not come that night to me. supported the electronic publication of this title. Her hair was streaming behind, and every fierce and malevolent passion was depicted in her face. She has taken her freedom; and all I wish is, that she would enjoy it without meddling with me. But I was a stranger, and did not know one door in the street from another, and was unwilling to go away. Her husband then wrote to my master to inquire whether I was to be sold? "London, 7, Solly Terrace, Claremont Square, And by WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH: And supplied at trade price to Anti-Slavery Associations by Joseph Phillips, 18, Aldermanbury. In regard to her non-admission to the Sunday school without permission from her owners, she admits that she may possibly have mistaken the clergyman's meaning on that point, but says that such was certainly her impression at the time, and the actual cause of her non-attendance. Mrs. Wood was more vexed about my marriage than her husband. My mother had several fine children after she came to Mrs. Williams,--three girls and two boys. entity references. I saw too much of it afterwards. This work was perfectly new to me. More of this hereafter.--ED. To Of the fate of the rest of her kindred, seven brothers and three sisters, she knows nothing further than this--that the eldest sister, who had several children to her master, was taken by him to Trinidad; and that the youngest, Rebecca, is still alive, and in slavery in Bermuda. recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. I have been a slave--I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows; and I would have all the good people in England to know it too, that they may break our chains, and set us free. We followed my mother to the market-place, where she placed us in a row against a large house, with our backs to the wall and our arms folded across our breasts. John A. Sick or well, it was work--work--work!--After the diving season was over, we were sent to the South Creek, with large bills, to cut up mangoes to burn lime with. I was awoke early one morning by dismal cries, and looking out of the window, I saw in the back yard of the house, a black girl of about fourteen years old; before her stood her mistress, a white woman, with a large stick in her hand. The reader will judge for himself as to the preponderance of internal evidence in the conflicting statements. This is the fourth time; and now I am going out.". edition lacks the "Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured have mercy upon me--don't kill me outright." This was about fifteen years ago. I continued to do my work, and did all I could to give satisfaction, but all would not do. I got the Saint Anthony's fire, also, in my left leg, and became quite a cripple. Should this unfortunately be the result, the condition of the poor negro woman, thus cruelly and hopelessly severed from her husband and her home, will be one peculiarly deserving of commiseration; and I mention the circumstance at present on purpose to induce the friends of humanity to promote the more zealously the sale of this publication, with a view to provide a little fund for her future benefit. Already a member? The gentlemen of the Society took me to a lawyer, who examined very strictly into my case; but told me that the laws of England could do nothing to make me free in Antigua.**. ", left her, at least, only the alternative of returning instantly to Antigua, with the certainty of severe treatment there, or submitting in silence to what she considered intolerable usage in his household. You are aware that in 1829, Mr. M'Queen of Glasgow, in noticing a Report of the "Ladies' Society of Birmingham for the relief of British Negro Slaves," asserted with his characteristic audacity, that the statement which it contained respecting distressed and deserted slaves in Antigua was "an abominable falsehood." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000. has not been preserved. Birmingham. "No, Ma'am, not yet," was Hetty's answer from below. Mr. Wood also asked me where I was going to. I always washed the child's clothes without being commanded to do it, and any thing else that was wanted in the family; though still I was very sick--very sick indeed. I found her in great distress; and she cried out as soon as she saw me, "Oh, Mary! Mr. D-- wrote in reply, "that I should not be sold to any one that would treat me ill." It was strange he should say this, when he had treated me so ill himself. He and my husband were in the same class in the Moravian Church. This poor man's wounds were never healed, and I have often seen them full of maggots, which increased his torments to an intolerable degree. First edition, 2000 My master, however, was a very harsh, selfish man; and we always dreaded his return from sea. However I kept still at that time, and went down again to wash the child's things; but the English washerwomen who were at work there, when they saw that I was so ill, had pity upon me and washed them for me. What's the reason they can't do without slaves as well as in England? I was obliged to wash, though I was very ill. Mrs. Wood, indeed once hired a washerwoman, but she was not well treated, and would come no more. This was worse to me than all the licks. He had beat her with his fist, and almost killed her. The idea of being sold away from my mother and Miss Betsey was so frightful, that I dared not trust myself to think about it. Oh dear! Suppose all Mr. Wood's defamatory allegations to be true--suppose him to be able to rake up against her out of the records of the Antigua police, or from the veracious testimony of his brother colonists, twenty stories as bad or worse than what he insinuates--suppose the whole of her own statement to be false, and even the whole of her conduct since she came under our observation here to be a tissue of hypocrisy;--suppose all this--and leave the negro woman as black in character as in complexion,*, * If it even were so, how strong a plea of palliation might not the poor negro bring, by adducing the neglect of her various owners to afford religious instruction or moral discipline, and the habitual influence of their evil example (to say the very least,) before her eyes? Mr. Ravenscroft with some difficulty obtained one or two interviews, but found Mr. Wood so full of animosity against the woman, and so firmly bent against any arrangement having her freedom for its object, that the negotiation was soon broken off as hopeless. My mother worked for some years on the island, but was taken back to Bermuda some time before my master carried me again thither.*. I would rather work for my living than get it for nothing. Without implicitly adopting either the view of Mary Prince, or the unmeasured encomiums of their West India partizans, I am willing to believe them to be, on the whole, fair specimens of colonial character. And having already kept back the publication a fortnight waiting for communications of this sort, I will not delay it longer. 77.--and. They are called out to work before daybreak, and come home after dark; and then each has to heave his bundle of grass for the cattle in the pen. Mr. Curtin finds in his books some reference to Mary's connection with a Captain ----, (the individual, I believe, alluded to by Mr. Phillips at page 32); but he states that when she attended his chapel she was always decently and becomingly dressed, and appeared to him to be in a situation of trust in her mistress's family. But before this step was taken, Dr. Lushington again had recourse to negociation with the master; and, partly through the friendly intervention of Mr Manning, partly by personal conference, used every persuasion in his power to induce Mr. Wood to relent and let the bondwoman go free. As regards the exaction of work from domestic slaves, his wife was probably more severe than himself--it was almost impossible for the slaves ever to give her entire satisfaction. I have been a slave myself--I know what slaves feel--I can tell by myself what other slaves feel, and by what they have told me. Mr. Wood knows this colonial estimate of such connexions as well as I do; and, however false such an estimate must be allowed to be, especially when applied to their own conduct by persons of education, pretending to adhere to the pure Christian rule of morals,--yet when he ascribes to a negro slave, to whom legal marriage was denied, such great criminality for laxity of this sort, and professes to be so exceedingly shocked and amazed at the tale he himself relates, he must, I am confident, have had a farther object in view than the information of Mr. Taylor or Sir Patrick Ross. On hearing this, His name was Henry. Besides this, there are many large scars on other parts of her person, exhibiting an appearance as if the flesh had been deeply cut, or lacerated with gashes, by some instrument wielded by most unmerciful hands. I never knew rightly that I had much sin till I went there. In this capacity she has remained ever since; and I am thus enabled to speak of her conduct and character with a degree of confidence I could not have otherwise done. So I went away to a neighbouring house and sat down and cried till the next morning, when I went home again, not knowing what else to do. The person who lived in next yard, (a Mrs. Greene,) could not bear to hear my cries and groans. Let those who are disposed to doubt the atrocities related in this narrative, on the testimony of a sufferer, examine the details of many cases of similar barbarity that have lately come before the public, on unquestionable evidence. 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