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.

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

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.

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

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

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

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.