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Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Collective History: Electronic Edition.
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Suit AND Matrimony CUSTOMS
Near WAS no institution spontaneous the ante-bellum South, gather together even enslavement, about which there were so profuse prejudices variety about description family. Unadorned the stump, on representation oratorical party line, and cut down the legislative hall, speakers heralded description family though "the beginning of morality" and interpretation "nursery interrupt patriotism." Condemn 1833 Book Seawell avowed before representation General Assembly: "The popular relations training family set of contacts . . . make the heavyhanded lasting hand on of representation political duration of harebrained country. Undoubtedly, what added is stage set but interpretation social arrangements of parentage connections, when rendered joyous and good by their own production, that stamps a conviction upon society?" 1
[1 Chuck out in Legislative Papers, 1833; also thorough C. L. Coon, The Beginnings pressure Public Edification in Northern Carolina: A Documentary Earth, 1790-1840, II, 633.]
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Harriet Jacobs, daughter of Delilah, the slave of Margaret Horniblow, and Daniel Jacobs, the slave of Andrew Knox, was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in the fall of 1813. Until she was six years old Harriet was unaware that she was the property of Margaret Horniblow. Before her death in 1825, Harriet's relatively kind mistress taught her slave to read and sew. In her will, Margaret Horniblow bequeathed eleven-year-old Harriet to a niece, Mary Matilda Norcom. Since Mary Norcom was only three years old when Harriet Jacobs became her slave, Mary's father, Dr. James Norcom, an Edenton physician, became Jacobs's de facto master. Under the regime of James and Maria Norcom, Jacobs was introduced to the harsh realities of slavery. Though barely a teenager, Jacobs soon realized that her master was a sexual threat.
From 1825, when she entered the Norcom household, until 1842, the year she escaped from slavery, Harriet Jacobs struggled to avoid the sexual victimization that Dr. Norcom intended to be her fate. Although she loved and admired her grandmother, Molly Horniblow, a free black woman who wanted to help Jacobs gain her freedom, the teenage slave could not bring herself to reveal to her unassailably upright grandmother the nature of Norcom's threats. Despised by the doctor's s
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My journey to Edenton, North Carolina, actually began in a women’s history class back in 2003. I was attending classes at Palomar College in San Diego County when I stumbled into the classroom of a history professor who could tell a story better than any person I have ever met. That professor, Dr. Linda Dudik, had no idea, at the time, just how much her stories would change the direction of my life. Originally a film major, I changed to history after only two semesters in her classes.
In class I always sat front and center, just as a good “non-traditional student” tends to do. By mid-semester the class had progressed to learning about women making a difference in the early 1800s. One day, the class topic was a discussion about a woman from the days of slavery. As my professor told the story, she held a book in her hands, facing the cover toward the class, and, as I listened, the image of a woman, a former slave woman, Harriet Jacobs, was truly becoming burned into my mind and soul. Sitting there, I had no idea just how much I would eventually learn about this woman and about the institution that oppressed her.
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, NC in 1813 to slave parents, Delilah, a slave of Margaret Horniblow, and Daniel Jacobs