Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Quotes

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

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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.

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.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

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

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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.

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

Death is better than slavery.

Death is better than slavery.

- 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.

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

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.

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

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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