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

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

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.