1.
"Influential nineteenth-century ideal of femininity stressed the importance of motherhood, sometimes convincing them of the importance of societal reform"(Glossary).
2.
"I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be dreamed of them at any moment" (2187).
3.
"I have often heard her tell how hard she fared during childhood. But as she grew older she evinced so much intelligence, and was so faithful, that her master and mistress could not help seeing it was for their interest to take care of such a valuable pie
4.
"I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave" (2188).
5.
But, alas! we all know that the memory of a faithful slave does not avail much to save her children from the auction block" (2189).
6.
“I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves” (2189).
7.
"Those were the happy days-too happy to last. The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel" (2188).
8.
"My kind mistress sickened and died. I prayed in my heart that she might live! I loved her; for she had been almost like a mother to me" (2189).
