Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

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My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. - Harriet Ann Jacobs

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. - Harriet Ann Jacobs

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. - Harriet Ann Jacobs