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.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

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.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

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

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.