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

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

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

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