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 the year.

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

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

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 could not remain ignorant of their import

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 jealous mistress.

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