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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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"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
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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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"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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"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."
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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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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
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"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
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"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
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"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."
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