| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: about your ways and about your ship, too. I told them all I knew.
I had to keep in with them. And Bamtz would have told them if I
hadn't - you understand?'
"He made a friendly sign and went out. The men about the table
(except Bamtz) looked at him. This time it was Fector who spoke.
'Won't you join us in a quiet game, Captain?'
"Davidson said that now the child was better he thought he would go
on board and turn in. Fector was the only one of the four whom he
had, so to speak, never seen, for he had had a good look at the
Frenchman already. He observed Fector's muddy eyes, his mean,
bitter mouth. Davidson's contempt for those men rose in his gorge,
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: hounds, in pursuit of Frank and Mary.
On arriving at Savannah, the hunters found that
the fugitives had sold the horses and trap, and
embarked as free white persons, for New York.
Slator's disappointment and rascality so preyed
upon his base mind, that he, like Judas, went and
hanged himself.
As soon as Frank and Mary were safe, they
endeavoured to redeem their good mother. But,
alas! she was gone; she had passed on to the
realm of spirit life.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: CHAPTER XXIV
_Twenty-One Months in Great Britain_
GOOD ARISING OUT OF UNPROPITIOUS EVENTS--DENIED CABIN PASSAGE--
PROSCRIPTION TURNED TO GOOD ACCOUNT--THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY--THE
MOB ON BOARD THE "CAMBRIA"--HAPPY INTRODUCTION TO THE BRITISH
PUBLIC--LETTER ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON--TIME AND
LABORS WHILE ABROAD--FREEDOM PURCHASED--MRS. HENRY RICHARDSON--
FREE PAPERS--ABOLITIONISTS DISPLEASED WITH THE RANSOM--HOW MY
ENERGIES WERE DIRECTED--RECEPTION SPEECH IN LONDON--CHARACTER OF
THE SPEECH DEFENDED--CIRCUMSTANCES EXPLAINED--CAUSES CONTRIBUTING
TO THE SUCCESS OF MY MISSION--FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND--
My Bondage and My Freedom |
