But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!