Black Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Several years after, he passed through our town and preached to his former congregation. In his afternoon sermon he addressed the colored people. 'My…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Are doctors of divinity blind or are they hypocrites?”

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

— 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…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs