"When I was nearly twelve years old, my……" — Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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29 Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until…
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself…
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble…
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table,…
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk…
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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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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor,…
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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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Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life…
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