Harriet Jacobs Quote

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.

The deeper wrong; or, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself [signed Linda Brent] ed. by L.M. Child (ed. 1862)

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.

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.

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.

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.