It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight ... Finally, after she learned that Norcom was preparing to put her children to work as plantation slaves, she had had enough.

With the Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs project Lanier and Rivers draw ... I do not sit with my children in a home of my own, I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble.

When instead she and her two young children were threatened with exile ... In 1865, The Freedmen’s Record published a profile about Harriet Jacobs, describing her as “one of the most zealous ...

However, Sawyer didn’t emancipate his and Harriet’s children, and they remained in bondage. Their daughter was sent to New York to work as a servant, and in 1842, Jacobs decided to head north ...