Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.