It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight ... But since the niece was only three years old, Harriet's actual master was the father, a Dr. James Norcom. This man would be ...

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery but refused ... Jacobs soon moved to the Norcom household, and Mary Matilda’s father ...

Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet A. Jacobs’ description of her experiences of surviving ...

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight ... But since the niece was only three years old, Harriet's actual master was the father, a Dr. James Norcom. This man would be ...