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> [Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/hot-weather-brings-out-snakes-and-slaveholders-and-i-like-one-class/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

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## More by Harriet Ann Jacobs

> [There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/there-must-be-sophistry-in-all-this-but-the-condition-of-a-slave/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/who-can-blame-slaves-for-being-cunning-they-are-constantly-compelled/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/it-was-a-grand-opportunity-for-the-low-whites-who-had-no-negroes-of/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [“I remained abroad ten months, which was much longer than I had anticipated. During all that time, I never saw the slightest symptom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/i-remained-abroad-ten-months-which-was-much-longer-than-i-had/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/but-i-now-entered-on-my-fifteenth-year-a-sad-epoch-in-the-life-of-a/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/for-years-my-master-had-done-his-utmost-to-pollute-my-mind-with-foul/)

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> [“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/several-years-after-he-passed-through-our-town-and-preached-to-his/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/cruelty-is-contagious-in-uncivilized-communities/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [“Are doctors of divinity blind or are they hypocrites?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/are-doctors-of-divinity-blind-or-are-they-hypocrites/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/i-was-born-a-slave-but-i-never-knew-it-till-six-years-of-happy/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/there-are-wrongs-which-even-the-grave-does-not-bury/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/i-can-testify-from-my-own-experience-and-observation-that-slavery-is/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/i-was-ordered-to-go-for-flowers-that-my-mistress-s-house-might-be/)

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> [Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/notwithstanding-my-grandmother-s-long-and-faithful-service-to-her/)

[Harriet Ann Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-ann-jacobs/)

> [Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-ann-jacobs/hot-weather-brings-out-snakes-and-slaveholders-and-i-like-one-class/)

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