Three days after giving birth, she was forced to go back to work, and her enslaver whipped her with an ox-goad (also called a cattle prod) after she failed to do her job correctly.

[3] Compton mortgaged herself against a loan several times in various attempts to buy her freedom but could not make her payments and consequently became enslaved again.

[3] In 1808, when Minna was out on grand-jury duty in Wilkes-Barre, the mistress had Dubois scrub the bar-room because guests were over.

[5] The other people in the bar-room attempted to intervene, but Dubois threatened them with physical violence, and no one approached her.

[5] She went back to Great Bend, and Minna told her that if she took her child to New Jersey, he would write her a pass and officially give Dubois her freedom.

[5] In 1812, Dubois' grandfather bought Cedar Summit on Sourland Mountain, where he opened Put's Tavern, an establishment known for being rowdy.

[6] In the 1830s, Dubois and her two youngest daughters, Elizabeth Alexander and Charlotte Moore, went to court multiple times for disturbance of the peace, assault, and operation of an unlicensed house.

[6] Around 1840, Dubois' tavern and home burned down, and she lost her property for failing to pay taxes.

[6] Dubois' second home burned down between this time and 1883, and she spent the rest of her life living in relative poverty at Sourland Mountain.

[8] Historian Jared C. Lobdell edited, translated the phonetic spelling, and wrote an introduction for a new publication of Dubois' biography by Larison.