The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.Harriet Ann Jacobs
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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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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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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Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
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