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

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

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

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

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

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.