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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.