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The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man
Jacobs tells of her uncle Benjamin's repeated defiance and imprisonment, and her grandmother's patient, decades-long effort to buy freedom for her children one at a time out of her own earnings.
Uncle Benjamin's defiance and imprisonmentGrandmother's efforts to purchase her children's freedomThe price paid for resistance“He that is willing to be a slave, let him be a slave”