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The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun. " Now that's horror.

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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

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Death is better than slavery.

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There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

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