Nature has done almost nothing to prepare men and women to be either slaves or slaveholders.

Nothing but rigid training, long persisted in, can perfect the character of the one or the other.

One cannot easily forget to love freedom; and it is as hard to cease to respect that natural love in our fellow creatures.
On entering upon the career of a slaveholding mistress, Mrs.Auld was singularly deficient; nature, which fits nobody for such an office, had done less for her than any lady I had known.

It was no easy matter to induce her to think and to feel that the curly-headed boy, who stood by her side, and even leaned on her lap; who was loved by little Tommy, and who loved little Tommy in turn; sustained to her only the relation of a chattel.

I was _more_ than that, and she felt me to be more than that.
I could talk and sing; I could laugh and weep; I could reason and remember; I could love and hate.