I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.
There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together - Harriet Ann Jacobs
There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
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 ter… - 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 ter…
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cru… - Harriet Ann Jacobs
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cru…
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Death is better than slavery. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
Death is better than slavery.
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. - Harriet Ann Jacobs
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
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