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Quotation from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs
“The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own.”
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XLI, Free at Last (Project Gutenberg #11030 (1861 text))
Her longing, even in freedom, for a hearthstone of her own.
Citation: "The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own." — Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XLI, Free at Last (Project Gutenberg #11030 (1861 text)). (id incidents-in-the-life-of-a-slave-girl-q8)
Virtues: Hope
Portrait: Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs (cropped), Gilbert Studios; restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
