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Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

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

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"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."
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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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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
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"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
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"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
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"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
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"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."
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"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."
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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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