Quotes about Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

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

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs