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by Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Chapter 8, What Slaves are Taught to Believe About the North Summary and Analysis

Here the reader learns how slaves are told believe that life in the northern states is more difficult and unpleasant than their current lives in slavery. Their masters fabricate stories about escaped slaves and the terrible fates they meet in the North. Dr. Flint tells Linda that he has seen an escaped friend of hers in the free states, living in such terrible circumstances that she begged to be returned to slavery. Linda will meet with this friend, in New York, many years later, and find her living comfortably with.....

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