Quote#Children
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her…
Quote byHarriet Jacobs · 1815–1897
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), p. 16.
English (original)
Notwithstanding 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 Jacobs
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