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Slave Girl Quotes

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Hill Collins
White, Slave Girl, Female
Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.92, Routledge

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Law, Slave Girl, Patriotism
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Jealous, Slave Girl, Giving
Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Kindness, Attachment, Slave Girl
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Slave Girl, Years, Childhood
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Girl, Slave Girl, Atmosphere
Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

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