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

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

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.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

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