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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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