Harriet Ann Jacobs was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured. It is based on events of her own life.
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.
The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.