Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) was an American abolitionist and novelist. Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina. She escaped from Edenton by boat in 1842, and moved to New York. Abolitionist Nathaniel Parker Willis gave Jacobs a job as a nursemaid for his family. Her most famous book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published under the pen name Linda Brent in 1861, places an emphasis on alleged sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women.
External links
- Harriet Ann Jacobs: Writer and Activist (http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/Jacobs/)
- Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) (http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jacobs.html)
- Full text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11030:) at Project Gutenberg
After hiding from her master, Dr. James Norcum, in her grandmother's crawlspace for seven years, Jacobs made her escape to freedom.