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.
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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
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.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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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.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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