Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes


When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


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


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


When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. - Harriet Ann Jacobs


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