Quotes about Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images,...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for...

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

Death is better than slavery.

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#Harriet Ann Jacobs