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are put into jail together with their uncle in preparation for their sale to the trader. Since he does not mention the parental relationship between his last owner and his sister's children, the reasons for Sawyer's interest in buying children and uncle remain unclear in John Jacobs' tale. This is also true for the reasons of the good treatment John Jacobs received while being Sawyer's slave, who did not treat his numerous other slaves well. These things only become clear to the readers of
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as fugitive, but was brought there by his master. On the other hand, Garrison wrote many years later on occasion of John Jacobs's funeral, that he stayed on in the North until the
Fugitive Slave Law was passed and then left the county "knowing that there was no longer any safety for him on our soil."
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Harriet's book, but "Dr. N-"
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John's mother died when he was four years old. He was allowed to continue living with his father, until at the age of nine he was hired out to Dr. James Norcom, the deceased tavern keeper's son-in-law. His sister
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He did not have much success either in
California or in Australia, and so went on to England, going to sea from there. When his sister went to Great Britain in 1858 and again in 1867/68, the siblings failed to meet, because on both occasions John was at sea — in 1858, he was in the Middle East, ten
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In June 1835, Harriet's situation as Norcom's slave had become unbearable and she decided to escape. Furious, Norcom sold John Jacobs together with
Harriet's two children to a slave trader, hoping he would transport them outside the state, thus separating them forever from their mother and sister.
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in John's. The only exceptions in John's tale are Sawyer, whose name he abbreviates at first, but later gives in full, and his own name, which he gives as the signature under the letter written by a friend, in which he tells Sawyer that he has left: "No longer yours, John S. Jacobs".
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tombstone has no dates). Mary Maillard, who would in 2017 become the editor of the letters of Harriet's daughter, argues in favor of 1815 as the year of Harriet's birth in an article published in 2013. The dates and ages in this article are given according to Yellin.
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Yellin interpretes the "S." as a compliment to his last owner, Sam Sawyer. John S. Jacobs himself writes about his relationship to Sawyer, "The lawyer I have quite a friendly feeling for, and would be pleased to meet him as a countryman and a brother, but not as a
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as "unique for its global perspective and its uncensored fury". He castigated both the slave holders (the 600,000) and the rest of American society for their complicity. John Jacobs also features prominently, under the pseudonym "William", in the classic
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While enslaved by Norcom, John Jacobs learned basic health care and succeeded in teaching himself to read (only very few slaves were literate), but even when he escaped from slavery as a young adult he was not able to write.
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2003:. Walker, a white man, showed his hand as proof of the slaveholders' barbaric brutality. The hand had been branded with the letters SS (meaning "slave stealer") after he had tried to assist a group of fugitives.
2160:. He died the same year, on December 19, 1873. Having been invited by Louisa Matilda, William Lloyd Garrison participated in the funeral. Harriet and Louisa Matilda Jacobs later were interred at his side in
1871:, had already been published by him in a Sydney, Australia newspaper in 1855. The Australian version was rediscovered and subsequently republished in 2024. The full autobiography is described among
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which made it easier for slaveholders to force fugitives back into slavery. John S. Jacobs was one of the speakers on rallies protesting against that law. At the end of that year, he went to
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whom Harriet Jacobs had come to know through John, finally was the person to convince Harriet, who in 1853 started working on her
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How a lost story of American slavery was found in Australia
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voyage, taking with him all the books he wanted to study.
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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself
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Jacobs, John S. (2024). Schroeder, Jonathan D. S. (ed.).
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Jacobs, Harriet A. (2000). Yellin, Jean Fagan (ed.).
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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
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2964:"A True Tale of Slavery"
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1942:Escape and abolitionism
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2015:Rochester, New York
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335:Genoese slave trade
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1958:, John S Jacob ."
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