Abolitionist Amy Post

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Joshua J. Mark
by Unknown Photographer
published on 10 April 2025
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Abolitionist and Quaker Amy Post in the 1860s. Amy Post is best known as the first person to suggest to Harriet Jacobs that she write her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Photographer unknown; image included in Harriet Jacobs: A Life (2004) by Jean Fagan Yellin.

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