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Death is better than slavery.

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

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.