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

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

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 beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

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.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

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