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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
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
nanny, writer, autobiographer
1812 – 1897
Harriet Jacobs was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
All Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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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