ABSTRACT
James Hambleton Christian is a remarkable specimen of the “well fed, &c.” In talking with him relative to his life as a slave, he said very promptly, “I have always been treated well; if I only have half as good times in the North as I have had in the South, I shall be perfectly sat isfied. Any time I desired spending money, five or ten dollars were no object.” At times, James had borrowed of his master, one, two, and three hundred dollars, to loan out to some of his friends. With regard to ap parel and jewelry, he had worn the best, as an every-day adornment. With regard to food also, he had fared as well as heart could wish, with abundance of leisure time at his command. His deportment was cer tainly very refined and gentlemanly. About fifty per cent, of AngloSaxon blood was visible in his features and his hair, which gave him no inconsiderable claim to sympathy and care. He had been to William and Mary’s College in his younger days, to wait on young master James B. C., where, through the kindness of some of the students he had picked
20 William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia, 1872), 69-70.
