Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897
Birthday: February 11
Death: March 7
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.
source: Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.16
topic: Faithful Service
