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

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.

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

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

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.