Slave Girl Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

Childhood

Slave Girl

Years

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.

Giving

Jealous

Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

Law

Patriotism

Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Children

Slave Girl

Waiting

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Atmosphere

Girl

Slave Girl

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.

Attachment

Kindness

Slave Girl

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Patricia Hill Collins

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Adequate

Atmosphere

Attachment

Beautiful

Believe

Black

Block

Childhood

Children

Class

Community

Creatures

Cruelty

Daughter

Degradation

Differences

Doe

Eye

Father

Four

Girl

Giving

Grandmother

Heart

Horse

Hue

Hypocrite

Ignorant

Injustice

Jail

Jealous

Kindness

Knowing

Law

Literature

Long

Lying

Men

Mistress

Morning

Mother

New Day

New Year

Patriotism

Pounds

Powerless

Practice

Principles

Religious

Running

Secret

Shadow

Slave Girl

Slavery

Snakes

Son

Sophistry

Sorrow

Soul

Southern

Spring

Strong

Suffering

Sunshine

Tears

Together

Twelve

Vices

Waiting

War

Weather

Years

Slave Girl Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

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.

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

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

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.

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