Harriet Jacobs Quotes
Death is better than slavery.
Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Published for the Author, 1861, p. 122.
Soon after, he led 960 men, women and children in a mass suicide at Masada.
Ernestine Louise Polowsky. Most abolitionists were not as concerned with female emancipation. Rose was one of the exceptions.
See Joseph Addison which may have been the inspiration for this famous quote: {613374}.
This leading “conductor” of the Underground Railroad carried a loaded pistol which she brandished if escaping slaves would get discouraged and not follow instructions endangering the others or the organization itself. The Underground Railroad referred to the clandestine method that Tubman and other “conductors” would risk their own lives by going down South and guiding escaped slaves through a series of safe houses and locations “stations” until they reached Canada where slaves could not be legally recaptured.
Harriet Jacobs was an African-American writer, whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. When he threatened to sell her children if she did not submit to his desire, she hid in a tiny crawl space under the roof of her grandmother's house, so low she could not stand up in it. After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free North, where she was reunited with her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda and her brother John S. Jacobs. She found work as a nanny and got into contact with abolitionist and feminist reformers. Even in New York, her freedom was in danger until her employer was able to pay off her legal owner.
