My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.