The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Harriet Ann JacobsNo pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Harriet Ann JacobsBut 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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs