Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

Harriet Ann Jacobs
American Writer
Born: Feb 11, 1813
Died: Mar 7, 1897
Girl Life Master Me Year You
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Beautiful Nature Soul Spring Apt Also Came Revive Human Loveliness Human Soul Her
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. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Life Jealous Jealousy Me Rest My Life Master Live Out Would Unprincipled Give Give Me Rather Cotton Opened Mistress Till Than Plantation Grave
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
Me Heart Women Men Girl Before More Had Terrible Been Than Heavier New-Born Far Ever Slavery Babe
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Happy Born Never Had Knew Passed Till Years Childhood Six Happy Childhood Away Slave
Death is better than slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Death Better Than Slavery
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Good Mind Pure Master Inculcated Destroy Had Principles Mistress His Years Done Childhood Grandmother Foul Utmost Images
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Cruelty Uncivilized Contagious Communities
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
You Yourself Impossible Will Immortal See Seem Concealment Call Souls Trader Go Hear Southern Human Want Human Beings Then Convinced Plantation Fully Beings Among Things Slavery
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
Service Family First Some Share Mistress Years Accustomed Children Flint Dr
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
Kindness Freedom You Control Lover No Control Something Having Attachment Except He Over Which Gains Who
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
Day Morning Mother Wish Year Before Cold Torn Cabin New She Sorrows Does Die May Often Children Might Next Next Morning Who Floor Her Watching Slave Peculiar
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
Sad Life Words Girl Master Year Young Entered Remain Could Import Began Whisper Fifteenth Ignorant Epoch Foul Now Ear Slave
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Fear Girl Atmosphere Slave
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live. Harriet Ann Jacobs
God Live Born Only Pounds Weighed Said Premature Four Babe

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