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

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

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

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

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

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

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.