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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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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.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
February 11, 1813
Died:
March 7, 1897
(aged 84)
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