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Harriet Jacobs

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Free at last

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

The fugitive slave law

What a disgrace to a city calling itself free, that inhabitants, guiltless of offence, and seeking to perform their duties conscientiously, should be condemned to live in such incessant fear, and have nowhere to turn for protection!