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

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

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

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

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

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

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