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

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

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

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

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.