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• 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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, New Year, Morning

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.26, Prestwick House Inc

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• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Running, Years, Jail

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

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• 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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Years, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Practice, Principles, Sophistry

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85

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• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Secret, Literature, Slavery

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.55

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• 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

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Years, Sorrow, Shadow

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.38, Prestwick House Inc

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• Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Class, Snakes, Weather

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.194, Prestwick House Inc

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• When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Pounds, Literature, Four

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.94

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• 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

  Father, Men, Knowing

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.57

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• Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Horse, Children, Block

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.16

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• 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

  Children, Years, Mistress

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1862). “The Deeper Wrong, Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.44

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• When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Years, Mistress, Twelve

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.15

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