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The North Carolina slave act shows the state's response to federal laws, as well as the regulation of slaves and freed slaves. Nearly every aspect of their lives was regulated. These are the "Southern Laws" that Jacobs refers to in Chapter 1, when she says that "according to Southern Laws, a slave, being property, can hold no property" (2). https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/slavesfree/summary.html
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This image shows a recreation of the garret in which Jacobs hid for 7 years. This was on display at the Mightier than the Sword exhibit at the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016.
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Background on Amy Post: https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4018
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Correspondence with Amy Post detailing Jacobs' reservations about reliving her experiences by telling the story: https://glc.yale.edu/harriet-jacobs-selected-writings-and-correspondence-documents
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Jacobs had previously attempted to publish her work with two different Boston publishing firms, Phillips & Sampson and Thayer & Eldridge. However, both firms went bankrupt before the book's publication. http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2019/11/18/harriet-jacobs-publisher-and-activist/
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This photo by James Larkin shows enslaved women on a plantation owned by Felix Richards near Alexandria, VA.
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