And, horribly enough, it was, but that doesn't make her any less a slave. I remember someone telling me that they'd read the Harriet Jacobs narrative, and they said it was mild compared to other slave narratives. It was depressing reading not only because bad things happened to slaves, but because slavery could become so pedestrian when you read enough of it, so ordinary. It was assembled in the 1930s by the Writer's Project, and these people interviewed the slaves who were left, the very last ones.
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