There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

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.

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.

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

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.