be free is very sweet.  I will say the truth to English people who may read this history that my good friend, Miss S——­, is now writing down for me.  I have been a slave myself—­I know what slaves feel—­I can tell by myself what other slaves feel, and by what they have told me.  The man that says slaves be quite happy in slavery—­that they don’t want to be free—­that man is either ignorant or a lying person.  I never heard a slave say so.  I never heard a Buckra man say so, till I heard tell of it in England.  Such people ought to be ashamed of themselves.  They can’t do without slaves, they say.  What’s the reason they can’t do without slaves as well as in England?  No slaves here—­no whips—­no stocks—­no punishment, except for wicked people.  They hire servants in England; and if they don’t like them, they send them away:  they can’t lick them.  Let them work ever so hard in England, they are far better off than slaves.  If they get a bad master, they give warning and go hire to another.  They have their liberty.  That’s just what we want.  We don’t mind hard work, if we had proper treatment, and proper wages like English servants, and proper time given in the week to keep us from breaking the Sabbath.  But they won’t give it:  they will have work—­work—­work, night and day, sick or well, till we are quite done up; and we must not speak up nor look amiss, however much we be abused.  And then when we are quite done up, who cares for us, more than for a lame horse?  This is slavery.  I tell it, to let English people know the truth; and I hope they will never leave off to pray God, and call loud to the great King of England, till all the poor blacks be given free, and slavery done up for evermore.

[Footnote 16:  The whole of this paragraph especially, is given as nearly as was possible in Mary’s precise words.]

[Footnote 17:  She means West Indians.]

[Footnote 18:  A West Indian phrase:  to fasten or tie up.]

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE.

BY THE EDITOR.

Leaving Mary’s narrative, for the present, without comment to the reader’s reflections, I proceed to state some circumstances connected with her case which have fallen more particularly under my own notice, and which I consider it incumbent now to lay fully before the public.

About the latter end of November, 1828, this poor woman found her way to the office of the Anti-Slavery Society in Aldermanbury, by the aid of a person who had become acquainted with her situation, and had advised her to apply there for advice and assistance.  After some preliminary examination into the accuracy of the circumstances related by her, I went along with her to Mr. George Stephen, solicitor, and requested him to investigate and draw up a statement of her case, and have it submitted to counsel, in order to ascertain whether or not, under the circumstances,