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

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

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.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

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.

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.

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