Harriet Ann Jacobs – Quotes Lover

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time,...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time,...

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds;...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds;...

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than...

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man...

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over...

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened...

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or...

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a...

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little...

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt...

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a...

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life...

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits...

Death is better than slavery.

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

Death is better than slavery.