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

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

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.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

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

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

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