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. (Harriet Ann Jacobs)

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.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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