Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes


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


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


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


My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. - 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. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


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


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


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