Top 25 Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs of 37 - Page 2

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.

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

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Children, Slave Girl, Waiting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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