When they told me my new-bo... by Harriet Ann Jacobs, an American Writer

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“When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.”

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Name: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 1813

Date of Death: 1897

Profession: Writer

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Death is better than slavery.

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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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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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