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Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities Picture Quote #1

Death is better than slavery Picture Quote #1

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood Picture Quote #1

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also Picture Quote #1

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women Picture Quote #1

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live Picture Quote #1

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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also Picture Quote #1

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear Picture Quote #1

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died Picture Quote #1

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There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together Picture Quote #1

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury Picture Quote #1

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances Picture Quote #1

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel Picture Quote #1

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe Picture Quote #1

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood Picture Quote #1

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name Picture Quote #1

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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) Death is better than slavery (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) 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 (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) 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 (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name (Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes)