The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
From Harriet Ann Jacobs
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.
Death is better than slavery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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