I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

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

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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.

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.

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.