Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Children

Hypocrite

Mother

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

Girl

Ignorant

Years

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.

Morning

Mother

New Year

Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!

Children

Eye

Mother

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Community

Cruelty

Literature

Death is better than slavery.

Slavery

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

Long

New Day

Suffering

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

Children

Mistress

Years

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

Shadow

Sorrow

Years

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

Childhood

Grandmother

Years

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Eye

Father

Four

Girl

Giving

Grandmother

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Hypocrite

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Jealous

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Knowing

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Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

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

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.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Death is better than slavery.

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

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

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

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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