"I always told God, I'm going to hold steady on to you, and you've got to see me through."

"Every time I saw a white man, I was afraid of being carried away."

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I wa…"

"I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me."

"I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; that sugar, sugar, sugar! And I’d go to the barrel and get some."