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

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.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Death is better than slavery.

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.

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.