Citas de Harriet Ann Jacobs

• There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Strong, Suffering, Together

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.257

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• I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Hija, Padre, Hijo

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

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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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Girl, Heart, Men

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.92, Prestwick House Inc

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

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Law, Slave Girl, Patriotism

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130

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• There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Black, Doe, Injustice

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.294

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• Death is better than slavery.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Esclavitud

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• Llegó la hermosa primavera; y cuando la Naturaleza reanuda su hermosura, el alma humana suele revivir también.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Beautiful, Spring, Soul

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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• The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  War, Creatures, Powerless

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• Ninguna pluma puede dar una descripción adecuada de la corrupción omnipresente producida por la esclavitud.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Giving, Literature, Adequate

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.79

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• Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Madre, Niños, Ojo

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.38

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• La crueldad es contagiosa en las comunidades incivilizadas.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Community, Literature, Cruelty

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.234, Prestwick House Inc

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• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

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  Girl, Slave Girl, Atmosphere

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

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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.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Believe, Vices, Degradation

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.45

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• But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Girl, Years, Ignorant

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.37, Prestwick House Inc

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• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Religious, Men, Differences

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.115

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• 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

  Grandmother, Years, Childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.83

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• Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Sunshine, Tears, Hue

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.93

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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

  Jealous, Slave Girl, Giving

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Slave Girl, Years, Childhood

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Kindness, Attachment, Slave Girl

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Southern, Soul, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

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• I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Lying, Father

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2015). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist”, p.18, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Siempre me dolió que mis hijos no tuvieran derecho a un nombre.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.120

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• Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Long, New Day, Suffering

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.119

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• There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Practice, Principles, Sophistry

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85

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