“There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.”

— Harriet Jacobs · Courage quote

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. — Harriet Jacobs quote card

American abolitionist and writer (1813–1897), author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), the first full-length narrative by a Black woman published in the United States.

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