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.
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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
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.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
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There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.
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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.
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