In different circumstances, young Harriet Jacobs, bookish and dreamy, might have spent her days wandering meadows with book in hand, lost in musings. But Jacobs was born into slavery in the Deep South, exactly 50 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. Language was her pleasure and consolation, but it was also her peril: Literacy was illegal for slaves in the antebellum South, a crime punishable by death.
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