Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
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. - 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
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.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Death is better than slavery.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
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.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
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.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
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