In 1860 the federal census counted nearly four million enslaved men, women, and children across the American South, most of them born in the United States, and the majority working in the cotton fields of the lower South. Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) recalling her years as a slave in North Carolina How I hated it! It was one of the badges of slavery.” “I have a vivid recollection of the linsey-woolsey dress given me every winter by Mrs.
