Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
Harriet Ann JacobsNotwithstanding 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.
Harriet Ann JacobsThere must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Harriet Ann Jacobs