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

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

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.

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

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

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