Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name..

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died..

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..

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..

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….

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe..

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery..

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during ….

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it..

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn….

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..

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….

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I ….