![]() The law descended to them, and it was but natural that they should recognize it, since it manifestly was their interest to do so. ![]() ![]() They were not so much responsible for the curse under which I was born, as the God of nature and the fathers who framed the Constitution for the United States. I have kind, true-hearted friends in the South as well as in the North, and I would not wound those Southern ​friends by sweeping condemnation, simply because I was once a slave. The good that I have said of human servitude should be thrown into the scales with the evil that I have said of it. If I have portrayed the dark side of slavery, I also have painted the bright side. In writing as I have done, I am well aware that I have invited criticism but before the critic judges harshly, let my explanation be carefully read and weighed. My life, so full of romance, may sound like a dream to the matter-of-fact reader, nevertheless everything I have written is strictly true much has been omitted, but nothing has been exaggerated. At last I have acceded to the importunities of my friends, and have hastily sketched some of the striking incidents that go to make up my history. I have often been asked to write my life, as those who know me know that it has been an eventful one. ![]()
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