“ Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man. Harriet Jacobs
“ Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men. Harriet Jacobs
“ But 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… Harriet Jacobs
“ Many of the slaves believe such stories, and think it is not worth while to exchange slavery for such a hard kind of freedom. It is difficult to persuade such that freedom could make them useful men,… Harriet Jacobs
