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Hannah’s mother is an unnamed enslaved woman whom the master enslaves on his estate of Lindenhurst. When Hannah was still a baby, the master sold her mother to an enslaver in Mississippi, who subsequently transferred her to the service of his daughter, who lived in Maryland. There, Hannah’s mother met a free Black man with whom she escaped to freedom in New Jersey and whom she subsequently married. Hannah and her mother are reunited after Hannah’s own escape to New Jersey.
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Mother Character Timeline in The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The timeline below shows where the character Mother appears in The Bondwoman’s Narrative. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 21: In Freedom
...school for “colored children.” Astonishingly, in New Jersey, she was at length reunited with her mother, whom the master sold to a plantation in Mississippi when Hannah was an infant. From...
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