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

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

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

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

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

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

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