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.

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.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

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

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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