Jacobs, Harriet Brent. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Title

Jacobs, Harriet Brent. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.

Creator

Jacobs, Harriet Brent

Contributor

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

Date

186 ?

Description

Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs asks for permission to have the letter her brother, John, sent Isaac Post to be published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard.

Subject

Post, Amy Kirby, b. 1802

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

1262

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

   New York

June 18^th

My Dear Friends
     I have just recieved [sic]
as [sic] letter from my Brother
and one enclosed to his
friend Mr Post- as it
was not under cover I
read it myself I then
read mine which was
only a few scolding
lines- because I had not
sent ^my Book^ to different people
in England- in the first
place it cost too much
to send then while in
debt, and in the next
I did not care to give
it a circulation there
before I tried to turn
it to some account

(Page 2)

so I have taken
it very patiently-
but I dont give up as
I used to, the trouble is
I begin to find out the
we poor Women has [sic] al
ways been too meek,-
when I hear a Man call
a woman an Angel be
hind her when she is out
of sight I begin to think
about poor ^Leah^ of the Bible
not Leah of the Spirits
I told our spirit friend
it was better to be born
lucky than rich-
but to my letter I read
mine and a part of yours
to Oliver Johnson he wanted
me to take some notes
from it- with your per
mission may I give them

(Page 3)

for the Liberator
no the Standard, what
my Brother says about
me is true, in his letter
I am going to Statten [sic] Island
to morrow [sic] for the first
time, I shall register my
Brother letter there is fif
teen pounds enclosed
in it- I meant to write
you a long letter but they
are waiting for me I
am so tired, I long to see
you kindest rememberance [sic]
to my friends
with much love
                        Harriet

Annotations

Harriet Brent Jacobs, an author and former slave, is writing from New York City to Amy Post, a close friend and benefactor. Jacobs refers to Leah Fox, one of the founders of Spiritualism. Spiritualists believed that through mediums, like Leah, they could communicate with the dead. Oliver Johnson was an associate editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard. William Lloyd Garrison, a radical abolitionist, edited the Liberator.

Tags

Abolitionism; Family

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Jacobs, Harriet Brent, “Jacobs, Harriet Brent. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3551.

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