Excerpt from The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863 I therefore asked the Opinion of several friends, who, like myself, had lived all those years under the Shadow Of the peculiar insti tution, in one or other of the northern tier of the slave States, and who labored faith fully for its abolition, giving the best service of their lives to the cause of freedom, pos sessing their souls in patience while contend ing against what seemed to be an irresistible power. Their concurrence has confirmed me in the Opinion, that, however feebly drawn, a true picture, so far as it goes, is given in these pages of the relation between master and slave, and of the social condition Of slave holding communities. Without claiming to be more than a plain story plainly told, it shows things as they were, and how they were regarded by intelligent and thoughtful people at the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.