But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

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.

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 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.

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

Death is better than slavery.

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