Quotes by Slave Girl My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl patriotism law The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel. Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl waiting children 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. Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl jealous giving 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. Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl attachment kindness I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl childhood years The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. Harriet Ann Jacobs slave-girl atmosphere girl That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave. Patricia Hill Collins slave-girl female white