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.
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Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.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 beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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