Harriet Ann Jacobs: But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

-- Harriet Ann Jacobs


		Name: Harriet Ann Jacobs Type: Writer Nationality: American Birth: 1813 Death: 1897

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