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

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.

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

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!

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

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

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.