Carolina QuotesNotwithstanding 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 Jacobs Carolinian
Source
p. 16
- work
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861)
- year
- 1861
- locator
- p. 16
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