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81 and thus secured the freedom of his wife and the other Slaves that accompanied them. These Fugitives were brought to my house, and I passed them on to Canada, where the Patriarchal custom of buying wives, and paying for them by bond labour, is not the practice; that labour is required to support their wives after they have obtained them.

"Jacob served seven years for Rachael, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had for her." "He served Laban yet seven other years, and he gave him Rachael to wife." This man was by no means as good as Laban; the latter gave Jacob his wife at the termination of fourteen years, but the former refused thus to do. He cheated the man not only out of his service, but out of his wife as well. Slavery stops not here, it takes even the children from the mother; she, legally, has no children, they are her master's property.

A Slave "can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything, all belongs to his master." A Slave woman, in the State of Georgia, was forced to leave her child, when only six weeks old, to accompany her young mistress to the North, on a pleasure trip. The mistress stopped in New York, but the servant continued her journey a little further North than her mistress anticipated. She arrived safe in Canada. This woman worked hard, saved what money she could for two years, and