No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Death is better than slavery.

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

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