Harriet Jacobs - Children Quotes

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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

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

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Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

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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.

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Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free.

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