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Mission Statement
About the Papers Jacobs's Circle About the Project Incidents
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Slavery 1813 - 1852
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1813 - 1842 Slave and Fugitive in the South concerns
the experiences of Harriet Jacobs and her family as the property
of Edenton’s slaveholding families and her life as a sexually-harrassed
teenager, as a mother, and as a hunted fugitive in North Carolina.
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| 1842 - 1852 Fugitive Slave
in the North presents Harriet Jacobs's early writings. These
concern her experiences being hunted by slave catchers on the streets
of Manhattan and Brooklyn; her escape to Massachusetts; her friendship
with activist William
C. Nell; her 1845 trip to England (as a "mammy");
her acquaintance with Sarah
Payson Willis Parton (Fanny Fern); her friendship in Rochester,
New York with the abolitionist and feminist reformer Amy
Kirby Post, who persuaded her tell her life story; the work
of her brother, John S. Jacobs, who in 1849 lectured against slavery
with Frederick
Douglass, then joined the Gold Rushes in California and
Australia; and Harriet Jacobs's 1852 purchase and manumission by
her New York employer Cornelia Grinnell Willis, wife of author Nathaniel
Parker Willis. |
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