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Harriet Ann Jacobs

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

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