Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Harriet Ann Jacobs
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  1. The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  2. Death is better than slavery.

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

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