I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.