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

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.

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

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.

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!

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

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