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Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. these god-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
-Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Notwithstanding My Grandmother's Long And Faithful Service

Harriet Ann Jacobs
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. these god-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.
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