Harriet Jacobs - Mistress 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

Harriet Jacobs

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 Jacobs

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

Harriet Jacobs

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 Jacobs

No matter whether the slave girl be as black as ebony or as fair as her mistress. In either case there is no shadow of law to protect her from insult, from violence, or even from death; all these are inflicted by fiends who bear the shape of men.

Harriet Jacobs