1.
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
Patricia Hill Collins
2.
My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
7.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away
Harriet Ann Jacobs