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.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

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.

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

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

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

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