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Louisa Matilda Jacobs Quotes

Four of the best book quotes from Louisa Matilda Jacobs
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“Whatever slavery might do to me, it could not shackle my children.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
author
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
book
Joseph Jacobs
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Louisa Matilda Jacobs
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children
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determination
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slavery
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protection
concepts
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“The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
author
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
book
Joseph Jacobs
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Louisa Matilda Jacobs
characters
dreams
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children
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longing
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disapointments
concepts
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“I thought that if he was my own father, he ought to love me. I was a little girl then, and didn’t know any better.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
author
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
book
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
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Samuel Tredwell Sawyer
characters
love
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misunderstandings
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fathers
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childish
concepts
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“I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
author
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
book
Joseph Jacobs
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Louisa Matilda Jacobs
characters
slavery
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mothers love for a child
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wishes
concepts

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