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

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other..

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

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

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury..

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each..

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition..

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities..

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also..

Death is better than slavery..

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, a….

I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them….

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cru….

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them imp….

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 n….

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of….

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.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealo….

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and th….

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more ter….