Which two sentences in this excerpt from Incidents in the
regarded their slaves as merely property?
Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs express the view that even "kind" slaveholders
She had promised my
dying mother that her children should never suffer for any thing, and when I remembered that, and recalled her many
proofs of attachment to me, I could not help having some hopes that she had left me free.
..After a brief
period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister's daughter, a child of to
five years old. So vanished our
hopes.
a ...As a child, I loved my mistress; and, looking back on the happy days I spent with her, I try to think with less bitterness
of this act of injustice. She
possessed but few slaves; and at her death those were all distributed among her relatives. Five of them were my grandmother's children, and had
shared the same milk that nourished her mother's children. Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of
her children escaped the auction block.