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

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

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

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