Bio
Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) was born into slavery in North Carolina. She became a mother at sixteen, a fugitive slave at twenty-two, and, in January 1861 at the age of forty-eight, the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. During the Civil War, Jacobs and her daughter, Louisa, returned to the South to aid African American refugees. Following the Civil War, they built an orphanage and home for African American children and elders in Savannah, Georgia.Harriet Jacobs Books
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsShadows Uplifted Volume II
C.S.R. CallowayIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsWomen and Freedom
Elizabeth KeckleyIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsVoices of Freedom
Solomon NorthupIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsSilent No More
Harriet JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsTwelve Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives
Solomon Ashley NorthupIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsThree Narratives of Slavery
Sojourner TruthIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Frederick DouglassIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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