Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.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.
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Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.
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Death is better than slavery.
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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.
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