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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.