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

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.

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

Death is better than slavery.

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

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

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.