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.

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.

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.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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

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

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