I have been dragged down to the lowest depths of human degradation and wretchedness, by Slaveholders.
My mother was known by the name of Milldred Jackson.

She is the mother of seven slaves only, all being sons, of whom I am the eldest.

She was also so fortunate or unfortunate, as to have some of what is called the slaveholding blood flowing in her veins.

I know not how much; but not enough to prevent her children though fathered by slaveholders, from being bought and sold in the slave markets of the South.

It is almost impossible for slaves to give a correct account of their male parentage.