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TRUE FREEDOM.
THE history of the African race is God's illuminated clock, set in the dark steeple of time.

The negro has been made the hewer of wood and the drawer of water for nearly all other nations.

The people of the United States, however, will have an account to settle with God, owing to their treatment of the negro, which will far surpass the rest of mankind.
Jerome, on reaching Canada, felt for the first time that personal freedom which God intended that all who bore his image should enjoy.
That same forgetfulness of self which had always characterized him now caused him to think of others.

The thoughts of dear ones in slavery were continually in his mind, and above all others, Clotelle occupied his thoughts.