But I now entered on my fif... by Harriet Ann Jacobs, an American Writer

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“But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.”

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Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Name: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 1813

Date of Death: 1897

Profession: Writer

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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

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