A true tale of slavery
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Fugitive slaves; Slaves; Slavery; Slaves' writings, American; United States
Other titles: Leisure hour.; North American slave narratives.
Description: Born in Edenton, North Carolina to slave parents who died when he was a child, the author is believed to be Harriet Jacobs' brother, John.  He remained in and around Edenton, belonging to four different masters. After John escaped in New York while accompanying his master on a honeymoon tour, he soon learned about his sister's successful escape and they were reunited and together moved to Boston. John left the United States following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, while Harriet remained behind in Boston with her employer who eventually bought her from slave-catchers. The final installment of Jacobs's narrative from February 28, 1861, is a compilation of anecdotes about how slaves were treated in the south and a discussion of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: A true tale of slavery. Originally published serially in The Leisure hour: a family journal of instruction and recreation, February 7, 14, 21, and 28, 1861, (Nos. 476-479), pp. 85-87, 108-110, 125-127, 139-141. Jean Fagan Yellin has attributed this slave narrative to John Jacobs, Harriet Jacobs's brother. For Yellin's introduction to this narrative, see her edition of Harriet Jacobs's "Incidents in the life of a slave girl" Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000. Pg. 126 signed John S. Jacob in a note to his former master.

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