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Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

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

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

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There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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Death is better than slavery.

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