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Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes: Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.
         

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.


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