American - Writer | February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897
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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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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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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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.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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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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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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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
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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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When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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