Carolina QuotesSlavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.
Harriet Jacobs
Carolinian
Source
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself (Boston, 1861); Documenting the American South, UNC
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- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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- 1861
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