If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

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

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

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

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

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

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.