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.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

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.

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

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

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

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.