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Negotiating Slavery

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Harriet Jacobs’ narrative demonstrates that slavery was not a monolithic institution of absolute power. Instead, the power dynamics of slavery frequently changed hands between master and slave, albeit how small.

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19th Century

Ill Amidst the Verdant Vales

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Today, it takes thirty-nine hours to drive from Eliza Hart Spalding’s hometown in east New York State to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1836, when she and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman became the first white women to cross the Rockies, it was a seven-month ordeal to reach what was then known as Oregon Territory; Mary Richardson Walker… MORE

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