If A Slave Is Unwilling To Go With His New Master, He Is Whipped, Or Locked Up In Jail, Until He Consents To Go, And Promises Not To Run Away During The Year. - SearchQuotes

About
Terms
Privacy
Sitemap

Get in Touch
Advertise
Removal Request
Subscribe
Contact Us

Social
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Pinterest

Close

Submit Quote

Latest Quotes
Browse our latest quotes

Topic List
Categorized list of quote topics

Famous Authors
Alphabetical list of influential authors

Picture Quotes
Custom and user added quotes with pictures

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

3 Likes

3 Comments

RELATED QUOTES

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

5 Likes

Sponsored Links

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs

2 Likes

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

6 Likes

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

1 Likes

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

1 Likes

Sponsored Links

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

74 Likes

Death is better than slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

11 Likes

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

1 Likes

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

4 Likes

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

5 Likes

Sponsored Links

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

6 Likes

First Time Mom quotes

TRENDING

ABOUT

Terms
Privacy Policy
Removal Request
Sitemap
Contact Us

OUR GOAL

Our goal is to help you by delivering amazing quotes to bring inspiration, personal growth, love and happiness to your everyday life.

© 2024 SearchQuotes™