The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

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

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

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.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

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.