Quotes by : Harriet Jacobs

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he....

The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds

Many of the slaves believe such stories, and think it is not worth while to exchange slavery for such....

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

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