Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

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.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with pecu

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This quote describes the emotional anguish of a slave mother on New Year's day. In addition to the usual hardships they face, New Year's is particularly distressing because it could mean the separation of her children from her. The quote emphasizes the desperation and hopelessness she feels, even to the point of desiring death as a way to escape the pain and potential loss that the new day may bring for her and her family.

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