Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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- There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
- I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
- Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
- There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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