When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. Harriet Ann Jacobs dielearnmother Change image and share on social
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. Harriet Ann Jacobs fatherknowman Change image and share on social
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Harriet Ann Jacobs bearchildhoodhappy Change image and share on social
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. Harriet Ann Jacobs childhooddestroyfoul Change image and share on social
