I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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