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.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
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.
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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.
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.