Slaveholders I hold to be individually and collectively responsible for all the evils which grow out of the horrid relation, and I believe they will be so held at the judgment, in the sight of a just God.

Make a man a slave, and you rob him of moral responsibility.

Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.

But my kind readers are, probably, less concerned about my opinions, than about that which more nearly touches my personal experience; albeit, my opinions have, in some sort, been formed by that experience.
Bad as slaveholders are, I have seldom met with one so entirely destitute of every element of character capable of inspiring respect, as was my present master, Capt.

Thomas Auld.
When I lived with him, I thought him incapable of a noble action.