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| © Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave, 2013 |
"During my residence with Master Ford
I had seen only the bright side of slavery. His was no heavy hand crushing us
to the earth. He pointed upwards, and with benign and cheering words addressed
us as his fellow-mortals, accountable, like himself, to the Maker of us all. I
think of him with affection, and had my family been with me, could have borne
his gentle servitude, without murmuring, all my days. But clouds were gathering
in the horizon —forerunners of a pitiless storm that was soon to break over me.
I was doomed to endure such bitter trials as the poor slave only knows, and to
lead no more the comparatively happy life which I had led in the Great Pine
Woods."
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