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What Slaves Are Taught to Think of the North
Jacobs exposes the fabricated stories slaveholders told enslaved people to discourage escape, including an invented account of a captured runaway, and relays an enslaved woman's garbled understanding of a political dispute in Washington.
Slaveholders' invented stories about the NorthDeliberate misinformation used to prevent escapeAn enslaved woman's account of a Washington disputeJacobs's own aside on justice