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

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

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

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

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

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