We are not aware that any one ever travelled so far as ourselves towards the North Pole in the same space of time, at this frosty period of the year, without the help of a balloon.William Craft
The laws of the Southern States are, however, far more barbarous than the ancient laws of England, for there the greatest criminal was allowed a fair trial by jury; but with us, for the slight offence of teaching a slave to read or write, the penalty was imprisonment, or receiving twenty to thirty-nine lashes with a heavy cow-skin, and in some cases death.William Craft
The poor trembling refugees could not make the world believe that slaveholders were as cruel as they represented them.William Craft
The man who invests his money in land, to get his living from it, may be called a farmer; but he who invests his in human flesh, to get his living from that, deserves to be called a man-stealer.William Craft
The lovely season did not fail to remind us of our once happy meeting at the marriage altar, which was the commencement of our trust in each other. But now we were about to be torn from each other and separately sold to ruthless tyrants.William Craft
I therefore considered it my duty to get her a pass to the Free States, and so save her from the grasp of her tyrannical mistress.William Craft
Our long conflict with the man-stealers of our native land, for that freedom which is the birthright of every child born of woman, whether black or white, does not admit of erroneous statement or exaggeration.William Craft
Is it not strange that the immediate offspring of plunder, and consequently disease, should be so beautiful?William Craft
As our escape was a most perilous undertaking, and would have proved fatal to us if some of our friends had known anything of it, we thought it best, therefore, to keep our secret to ourselves.William Craft
Suffice it to say that, having succeeded in eluding the keenest vigilance, and passed the most scrutinising guards, we at length placed our feet upon a free soil and thanked God that we were free.William Craft