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By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I 'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I 'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me.
- Source
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, vol. II (1852), 1852 · Vol. II, Chapter XL, "The Martyr", p. 273
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- Internet Archive (Rosenstock First Editions collection scan of vol. II of the 1852 two-volume edition, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington)
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From Chapter XL, "The Martyr", of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852, vol. II). Spoken by the character Uncle Tom to his owner Simon Legree, in the character's own dialect.