Quotes by : Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to....

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Death is better than slavery.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery....

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin....

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than....

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion....

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble....

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as....