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“No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.”
 
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Name:   Harriet Ann Jacobs
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   1813
 
Date of Death:   1897
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
 
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
 
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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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Death is better than slavery.
 
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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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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
 
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