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• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents…
• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro…
• No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
• Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about…
• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays…
• When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
• When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me,…
• When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the…
• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

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