My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

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

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

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