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

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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

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Death is better than slavery.

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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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