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

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

- 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.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

Death is better than slavery.

- 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…

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs