He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.
Harriet Ann JacobsReader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so.
Harriet Ann JacobsThere is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment
Harriet Ann JacobsMots clés kindness love freedom slavery
Would that I had more ability! But my heart is so full, and my pen is so weak!
Harriet Ann JacobsI resolved not to be conquered again.
Harriet Ann JacobsThe brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds
Harriet Ann JacobsMots clés inspirational hope slavery
My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
Harriet Ann JacobsMots clés inspirational power determination
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. She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agonies.
Harriet Ann JacobsMots clés motherhood slavery slave-girl harriet-jacobs
the scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad"...
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