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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.