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.
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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
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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