Death is better than slavery.
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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
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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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
Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
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.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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