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Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes: For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood
         

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood


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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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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.



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

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



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.



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The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.



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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.



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.

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.





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