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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
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.17, 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.