Ardently as
he was attached to the plantation and its people-much as he loved
good master and missus, he would prefer a home in happy New England,
a peaceful life among its liberty-loving people. To this end the
Rosebrooks provided him with money, sent him to the land he had
longed to live in. In Connecticut he has a neat and comfortable
home, far from the cares of slave life; no bloodhounds seek him
there, no cruel slave-dealer haunts his dreams. An intelligent
family have grown up around him; their smiles make him happy; they
welcome him as a father who will no more be torn from them and sold
in a democratic slave mart. And, too, Harry is a hearty worker in
the cause of freedom, preaches the gospel, and is the inventor of a
system of education by which he hopes to elevate the fallen of his
race. He has visited foreign lands, been listened to by dukes and
nobles, and enlisted the sympathies of the lofty in the cause of the
lowly. And while his appeals on behalf of his race are fervent and
fiery, his expositions of the wrongs of slavery are equally fierce;
but he is not ungrateful to the good master, whom he would elevate
high above the cruel laws he is born and educated to observe. With
gratitude and affection does he recur to the generous Rosebrooks; he
would hold them forth as an example to the slave world, and emblazon
their works on the pages of history, as proof of what can be done.
Bright in his eventful life, was the day, when, about to take his
departure from the slave world, he bid the Rosebrooks a long, long
good by.
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