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

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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.

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

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 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.