Slave Girl Quotes

“He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air.
He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was.
Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.”
― Andrew M. Greeley, The Magic Cup

“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. She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agonies.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“The sun sank slowly, illuminating beautiful reds and yellows, with purple just before the stars appeared twinkling against a navy-black background. Only when clouds rolled in and most slept, did Mairi cry.”
― Radiance Hoagland, Hunted