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.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

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

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

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.