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

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

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

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.