I had outrages heaped on me which might well crimson the cheek of honest womanhood with shame, but I never fell into the clutches of an owner for whom I did not feel the utmost loathing and intensest horror.

I have heard men talk glibly of the degradation of the negro, but there is a vast difference between abasement of condition and degradation of character.

I was abased, but the men who trampled on me were the degraded ones." "But, Iola, you must not blame all for what a few have done." "A few have done?
Did not the whole nation consent to our abasement ?" asked Iola, bitterly.
"No, Miss Iola, we did not all consent to it.

Slavery drew a line of cleavage in this country.

Although we were under one government we were farther apart in our sentiments than if we had been divided by lofty mountains and separated by wide seas.