1 She was gone long before I knew any thing about it.
2 I do not recollect of ever seeing my mother by the light of day.
3 I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege.
4 I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it.
5 He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage.
6 I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.
7 I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death, or burial.
8 She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone.
9 She died when I was about seven years old, on one of my master's farms, near Lee's Mill.
10 I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
11 The nearest estimate I can give makes me now between twenty-seven and twenty-eight years of age.
12 I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland.
13 It is a common custom, in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to part children from their mothers at a very early age.
14 I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night.
15 The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me.
16 For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child's affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child.
17 Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.
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