this is harriet jacobs in 1894. i tried to find a picture of harriet obz when she was younger but there does not seem to be one. the other thing too is these a slave in north carolina, which had a somewhat different system from what existed in other parts of the south at this point. it was never a state that was dominated by large slave plantations. and then once we have this -- what we've called the second middle passage, which was this point after the foreign slave trade has ended and when slaves are being shipped from the seaboard south into the there are toward the mississippi valley, mississippi, louisiana, once you have that second middle passage slaves are being taken precisely from places like north carolina and moved to the west, and for the most part, i mean, not exclusively but i would say there's really a premium placed on moving young men for that second middle passage. and so it meant that in the seaboard south in places like north carolina there was a kind of predominance of women, children, and the el

this is harriet jacobs in 1894. i tried to find a picture of harriet obz when she was younger but there does not seem to be one. the other thing too is these a slave in north carolina, which had a somewhat different system from what existed in other parts of the south at this point. it was never a state that was dominated by large slave plantations. and then once we have this -- what we've called the second middle passage, which was this point after the foreign slave trade has ended and when slaves are being shipped from the seaboard south into the there are toward the mississippi valley, mississippi, louisiana, once you have that second middle passage slaves are being taken precisely from places like north carolina and moved to the west, and for the most part, i mean, not exclusively but i would say there's really a premium placed on moving young men for that second middle passage. and so it meant that in the seaboard south in places like north carolina there was a kind of predominance of women, children, and the el

and i think harriet jacobs is very aware of this. so there's points in the course of her narrative where she makes some reference to the genre of a male slave narrative, of trying to like, you know, like this juxtaposition of if you're not a slave you're going to be a man. can you think of any parts in the book where she might be saying something sort of referencing this idea of being a man? yeah. >> at one point she's talking about how her brother is like really prideful and not used to having to respond to a master and he was afflicted by his male energy. >> she uses it to talk about her mother. there's a part where -- can anybody think of any other parts? because there's also a part i think where she's talking about her uncle maybe. let me check. it's wherever chapter 4 begins on page 14. the title of the chapter, "the slave who dared to feel like a man." right. which i think in fact -- right. this is a whole discussion about her uncle benjamin and she sort of talks about his quest for freedom. and she writes it in this kind of fo

and harriet jacobs also had a close relationship with a number of women's rights activists. she worked with organizations that were involved in the struggle for women's rights during the civil war, after the civil war. but she was also very

and harriet jacobs also had a close relationship with a number of women's