Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

#children #dr #during #family #first

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. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#destroy #done #foul #good #grandmother

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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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. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#father #knowing #little #man #many

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#apt #beautiful #came #her #human

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#inquisition #like #secrets #slavery #those

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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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. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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