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

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.

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

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

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.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.