"Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name."
― Harriet Ann Jacobs
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― Harriet Ann Jacobs
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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."
- "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."
- "Death is better than slavery."
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