It may be that my misery in slavery will only increase my happiness when I get free.

There is a better day coming." I shall never be able to narrate the mental experience through which it was my lot to pass during my stay at Covey's.

I was completely wrecked, changed and bewildered; goaded almost to madness at one time, and at another reconciling myself to my wretched condition.

Everything in the way of kindness, which I had experienced at Baltimore; all my former hopes and aspirations for usefulness in the world, and the happy moments spent in the exercises of religion, contrasted with my then present lot, but increased my anguish.
I suffered bodily as well as mentally.

I had neither sufficient time in which to eat or to sleep, except on Sundays.