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Harriet Ann Jacobs

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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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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"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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"Death is better than slavery."
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"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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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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"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
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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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"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."
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