I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.