Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.”

“The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.”

“When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.”

“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.”

“When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.”