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