Carolina QuotesI WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Jacobs Carolinian
Source
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself (1861)
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- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself
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- 1861
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More from Harriet Jacobs
O virtuous reader! You never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another. You never exhausted your ingenuity in avoiding the snares, and eluding the power of a hated tyrant; you never shuddered at the sound of his footsteps, and trembled within hearing of his voice.
There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.
We were not allowed to visit him; but we had known the jailer for years, and he was a kind-hearted man.