All HARRIET ANN JACOBS Quotes about “Literature”

“Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.”
“No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.”
“Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows”
“I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.”
“The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.”
“When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.”
“When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.”
“When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.”
“I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away”
“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.”
“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.”

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