“Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.”
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The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.