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.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

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

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

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

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