Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

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.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

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

Is everything right because the law allows it?

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.