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Identify the speaker: “I have no accurate knowledge of my ag…

Identify the speaker: “I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.”

Identify the title:       “Southern women often marry a man…

Identify the title:       “Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. They regard such children as property, as marketable as the pigs on the plantation; and it is seldom that they do not make them aware of this by passing them into the slave trader’s hands as soon as possible, and thus getting them out of their sight. I am glad to say there are some honorable exceptions.       I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a ‘parental relation;’ and their request was granted. These husbands blushed before the superior nobleness of their wives’ natures.”

Identify the speaker: “If the injustice is part of the neces…

Identify the speaker: “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth,–certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”