I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the te….

Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-ho….

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man ….

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at th….

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts..

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous..

The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to emp….

Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll c….

This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to cal….

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name..

The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us..