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Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: Death is better than slavery.

Death is better than slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

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

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.

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: Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

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: I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

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

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.

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

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

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.

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

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

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs quotes: 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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.