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

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

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.

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.