The Editor is conscious that the following Narrative has only its truthfulness to recommend it to favorable consideration.
It would have been easy to fill up the outline of the picture here and there, with dark shadows, and to impart a heightened dramatic colouring to some of the incidents; but he.
It is nothing more than it purports to be, namely; a plain, unvarnished tale of real Slave-life, conveyed as nearly as possible in the language of the subject of it, and written under his dictation.
The Editor is conscious that the following Narrative has only its truthfulness to recommend it to favorable consideration