There is a great difference... by Harriet Ann Jacobs, an American Writer

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“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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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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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

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Death is better than slavery.

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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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