ABSTRACT
As I was praying one day at my plough, the spirit spoke to me, saying “Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you. QUESTfOfi-What do you mean by the Spirit. ANS. The Spirit that spoke to the prophets in former days. . . . Now finding I had arrived to man’s estate, and was a slave, and these revelations being made known to me, I began to direct my attention to this great object, to fulfil the pur pose for which, by this time, I felt assured I was intended. Knowing the influence I had obtained over the minds of my fellow servants, (not by the means of conjuring and such like tricks-for to them I always spoke of such things with contempt) but by the communion of the Spirit whose revelations I often communicated to them, and they believed and said my wisdom came from God. I now began to prepare them for my pur-
16 Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: a Compila tion of Source Material (Amherst, Mass., 1971), 308ff.
