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.

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

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

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.

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