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.

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

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 war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

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

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

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.