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Front Cover: Daguerreotype of Louise Jacobs. From the Fanny Fern and Ethel Parton Papers, 1805-1982, courtesy of the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
Spanish Flat, 1852. Courtesy of the California State Library, Sacramento California.
African-American Woman Doing Laundry with a Scrub Board and Tub, African-American Girl Stirring Pot with 3 other Children on the Ground Watching, and a Woman in the Background Spreading Laundry. Circa 1900. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-51058.
Sara Payson Parton, Known as Fanny Fern. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-113065.

ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance

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"The Land of Liberty": Henry Bibb's Free Soil Geographies
James Finley
pp. 231-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2013.0021

Thinking Through Things: Labors of Freedom in James McCune Smith's "The Washerwoman"
Rachel Banner
pp. 291-328
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2013.0023

Contributors
pp. 375-376
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/esq.2013.0025

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