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Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders
Jacobs profiles several slaveholders in her community, including a wealthy planter she calls Mr. Litch, cataloging the punishments inflicted on his plantation and the impunity his wealth secured him.
Mr. Litch, an unaccountable planterPunishments used on plantationsImpunity of wealthy slaveholdersContrast with slaveholders' complaints about crop losses