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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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.Harriet Ann Jacobs
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.
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My master had power and law on his side I had a determined will. There is might in each.
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There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
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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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