There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.