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