“Me hope so, massa; but me sometime afraid no.”
“If you are changed, who changed you?”
“God de goot Fader, Jesus his dear Son, and God de Holy Spirit.”
“How was any change brought about in you?”
“God make me a slave when me was young little boy.”
“How, William? would you say God made you a slave?”
“No, massa, no: me mean, God let me be made slave by white men, to do me goot.”
“How to do you good?”
“He take me from de land of darkness, and bring me to de land of light.”
“Which do you call the land of light? the West India Islands?”