Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Harriet Tubman No. 11. "$500
Reward! Runaway from subscriber on Thursday night, the 4th inst., from the neighborhood of Cambridge, my
negro girl, Harriet, sometimes called Minty. Is dark chestnut color, rather stout build, but bright and
handsome. Speaks rather deep and has a scar over the left temple. She work a brown plaid shawl. I will
give the above reward captured outside the county, and $300 if captured inside the county, in either case
to be lodged in the Cambridge, Maryland, jail. (Signed) George Carter, Broadacres, near Cambridge, Maryland,
September 24th, 1849" (1940)
Workbook: September, 2020
September 30, 2020 : Here's a true story you may not believe.September 29, 2020 : I realize I'm becoming pedantic.September 28, 2020 : Box of voices. It started early.September 27, 2020 : Our chemistry professor taught an explosives class. Really.September 26, 2020 : "Kay–YOU–oh–arrr: left-handed radio."September 25, 2020 : I had a very underage teenage girlfriend who'd introduced herself to my radio voice.September 24, 2020 : I took the Greyhound, most of the time.September 23, 2020 : We had to hunt for the books.September 22, 2020 : We thought we were "Structuralists"...September 21, 2020 : Conversion came suddenly, although there'd been signs.September 20, 2020 : Guitars in the lounge.September 19, 2020 : We're told the University of Redlands will close our college because the University's accreditation is threatened.September 18, 2020 : "Do you want to be in school right now?"September 17, 2020 : "The people... united... will never be defeated!"September 16, 2020 : On the Revelle College quad competing sectarian groups have sited their literature tables.September 15, 2020 : The organizer of the first Anarchism study group I attend is Jorj...September 14, 2020 : Anarchism is inevitable.September 13, 2020 : I followed the reading where it led.September 12, 2020 : Clickety clack clack clack.September 11, 2020 : The girls' hands are clammy.September 10, 2020 : It's like a Terry Gilliam movie.September 9, 2020 : Then there is Fire in the Lake, and it all blows apart in an instant.September 8, 2020 : I met three girls at Windansea.September 7, 2020 : Why am I in the Model U.N.?September 6, 2020 : From the beginning I'm contrarian.September 5, 2020 : The silliness of solipsism.September 4, 2020 : I'm on the school's small grassy lunch court watching a no-neck with a varsity letter belittle one of the special-ed kids.September 3, 2020 : It's so fucking stupid they teach literature chronologically.September 2, 2020 : It's Christmas, I'm fourteen or fifteen, when for the first time I replace evasion with confrontation.September 1, 2020 : Change began to percolate when Nasty Debbie raved about Dostoevsky.
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