“Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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But I now entered on my fifteenth
“But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I would rather drudge out my life
“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.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There is a great difference between Christianity
“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.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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There is something akin to freedom in
“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Death is better than slavery.
“Death is better than slavery.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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