"free states" (p.574)
Note 37: For his sake, I felt that I ought not to link his fate with my unhappy destiny. He was going to Savannah to see about a little property left him by an uncle; and had as it was to bring my feelings to it, I earnestly entreated him not to come back. I advised him to go to the Free States, where his tongue would not be tied, and where his intelligence would be of more avail to him.
Source: Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Baym, Nina, ed. Norton Anthology of American Literature. W. W. Norton & Company. New York, New York: 1998. (p.1725)
Note 38: Reader, my story ends with freedom; not the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! We are as free from the power of slaveholders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition.
Source: Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Baym, Nina, ed. Norton Anthology of American Literature. W. W. Norton & Company. New York, New York: 1998. (p.1739)
Note 39: Map of the Union
Source: Batty, Peter & Parish, Peter. The Divided Union. Salem House Publishers. Topsfield, Massachusetts: 1987. (p.148)