Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
More Quotes from Harriet Ann Jacobs:
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.Harriet Ann Jacobs
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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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