The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

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

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

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 degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

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!