Eventually, Sawyer bought his children from Norcom and the kids moved North. In 1842 Jacobs escaped via the “Maritime Underground Railroad,” by boat, then train.

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North ...

Titled A Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs, the pair brought together an interdisciplinary group of women who have studied, written about, or invoked the memory of Jacobs within their academic, artistic ...

In 1860, as Harriet Jacobs’ book was about to appear, John Jacobs decided to republish his own narrative. Before a voyage to Brazil, he entrusted the text to a London magazine called Leisure Hour.

Kyra I. March ’22, who took Miles’ class on Jacobs as an undergrad, was inspired to join the committee by developing an understanding of Jacobs’ life and the role 17 Story St. played in it.

Harriet Jacobs, John Jacobs’s sister, shown in 1894. Her 1861 autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” is now recognized as a cornerstone of 19th-century American literature ...

Saturday, May 25, 2025 -- John S. Jacobs was a North Carolina fugitive, an abolitionist and the brother of canonical author Harriet Jacobs. His own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North ...

And it comes with an uncanny twist: Jacobs was the brother of Harriet Jacobs, whose 1861 autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” the first published slave narrative written by ...