Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Community, Literature, Cruelty

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.234, Prestwick House Inc

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

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Giving, Literature, Adequate

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.79

• 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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Jealous, Slave Girl, Giving

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

• 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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Religious, Men, Differences

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.115

• 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

• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.120

• 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

• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Slave Girl, Years, Childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

• 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

  Southern, Soul, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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