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Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters bef...more

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The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and w...more

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The frequent hearing of my mistress readingthe bible--for she often read aloud when herhusband was absent--soon awakened mycuriosity in respect to thi...more

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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

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The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of slav...more

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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, parti...more

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e have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God ...more

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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbar...more

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increas...more

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...The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing...more

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Slavery proved as injurious to her as it did to me. When I went there, she was a pious, warm, and tender-hearted woman. There was no sorrow or sufferi...more

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I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should...more

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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had...more

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It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horr...more

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For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.