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.

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

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

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

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

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

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.