After telling the story of a slave owner who lied about an escaped slave and the “hardships” she faced in the North (67), Jacobs opens up about what Southerners actually think of Northerners: “Southern gentlemen indulge in the most contemptuous expressions towards Yankees [...] When Southerners go North, they are proud to do them honor; but the northern man is not welcome south of the line of Mason and Dixon, unless he suppresses every thought and feeling inconsistent with their 'peculiar institution'” (69). While it is certainly conceivable that even those Northerners who were not exactly pro-slavery would be willing to hold their tongues in the presence of Southerners, they would no doubt not be happy to hear that their hosts were slandering them by removing them from company, and awakening such emotions in his readers, Jacobs opens them to greater empathy with his assertion that these men need not be