 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...right, I was grateful for it, and tried to merit the kindness by the faithful discharge of my duties. But I now entered on my fifteenth year — a sad epoch...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...right, I was grateful for it, and tried to meiit the kindness by the faithful discharge of my duties. But I now. entered on my fifteenth year — a sad...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...right, I was grateful for it, and tried to merit the kindness by the faithful discharge of my duties. But I now entered on my fifteenth year — a sad epoch...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Harriet Ann Jacobs - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...But I now entered on my fifteenth year — a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master hegan to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would he reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Lois Josephs Fowler - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...merit the kindness by the faithful discharge of my duties. But I now entered on my fifteenth year—a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Alan Gallay - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...right, I was grateful for it, and tried to merit the kindness by the faithful discharge of my duties. But I now entered on my fifteenth year — a sad epoch...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Richard Bak - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...remarkable narrative from the early 1800s, a servant named Linda Brent remembers turning fifteen as "a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master...I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import My master met me at every turn, reminding me that I belonged to him, and swearing by heaven and earth... | |
 | James Newton Poling - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...faced many young African American women during slavery. [When] I entered on my fifteenth year . . . my master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...right, I was grateful for it, and tried to merit the kindness by the faithful discharge of my duties. But I now entered on my fifteenth year — -a sad...tried to treat them with indifference or contempt. The master's age, my extreme youth, and the fear that his conduct would be reported to my grandmother,... | |
 | Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...autobiography of Linda Brent, to understand the precarious fate of most female slaves. Brent writes, "But I now entered on my fifteenth year — a sad...was, I could not remain ignorant of their import" (p. 26). The fact that Brent was only 15, and her master, an established medical doctor with a wife,... | |
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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. 
