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.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.