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