Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his po….

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live..

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave..

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel..

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances..

Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing mach….

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment..

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities..

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

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..