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Updated: June 16, 2025

In process of time, Isabella found herself the mother of five children, and she rejoiced in being permitted to be the instrument of increasing the property of her oppressors! Think, dear reader, without a blush, if you can, for one moment, of a mother thus willingly, and with pride, laying her own children, the 'flesh of her flesh, on the altar of slavery-a sacrifice to the bloody Moloch!

Olive Gilbert - The Narrative of Sojourner Truth