The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Die Geheimnisse der Sklaverei werden genauso totgeschwiegen wie die der Inquisition.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

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.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.