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Slavery and the Making of AmericaPicture of slave women cultivating a village garden in Central Africa, Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library
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…and I could die happy if I could see you and the children free. Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents of a Slave Girl, 1861, Chapter 26.



Margaret Garner with her slain child, "Modern Medea," Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1867 (from a photograph of the painting by Thomas Noble, currently at the Cincinnati Museum of Art). With permission from The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University.



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