you can see on the bottom it's signed by james norcom, edenton, north carolina. i think it's 1835 on that. when she got to the north harriet jacobs became very active in abolitionism. she was befriended by several white women who were abolitionists. they gave her aid and support. they encouraged her to write her story in the form of a narrative. she finished writing it in 1858. it's not a novel. sometimes people call all of these kinds of books novel. it's not a novel. it's non-fiction. she wasn't able to secure a publisher until one of her white abolitionist friends, and that was lidia maria child, wrote the preface for the book and sort of gave it her endorsement. which was kind of typical among slaves. people say oh, you write so well, how could you have been a slave. you speak so well how could you have been a slave? lydia maria child gave then dorisment to say this was a true story about harriet jacobs. it was published v published in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. and it's one of the few, not the only and not even the first but one of the few slave narra

you can see on the bottom it's signed by james norcom, edenton, north carolina. i think it's 1835 on that. when she got to the north harriet jacobs became very active in abolitionism. she was befriended by several white women who were abolitionists. they gave her aid and support. they encouraged her to write her story in the form of a narrative. she finished writing it in 1858. it's not a novel. sometimes people call all of these kinds of books novel. it's not a novel. it's non-fiction. she wasn't able to secure a publisher until one of her white abolitionist friends, and that was lidia maria child, wrote the preface for the book and sort of gave it her endorsement. which was kind of typical among slaves. people say oh, you write so well, how could you have been a slave. you speak so well how could you have been a slave? lydia maria child gave then dorisment to say this was a true story about harriet jacobs. it was published v published in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. and it's one of the few, not the only and not even the first but one of the few slave narra

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carolina who had aligned themselves with union forces had liberated a black family in the town of edenton and touched off a frenzy protest from the local slaveholders. this kind of activity is occurring over and over again throughout the war. maryland presented an even greater problem for local officials tasked with managing the torrent of fugitive slaves from the state. when the war began, fugitives sought sanctuary in the district of columbia, still a sleep holding steady at the time, but whose urban environment allowed them to blend into the population that had expanded significantly because of wartime activities. district emancipation was enacted by congress in the spring of 1862, the city became even more attractive to maryland runaways. planters in the state's southern counties where slavery had maintained its strength even as the institution declined elsewhere petitioned lincoln to intervene on their behalf with abolitionist commanders who were not inclined to honor the president's's pledge to enforce the fugitive slave act. but when there was no district of columbia to run to, eve