Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes About Literature
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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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When 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.
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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