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.

Harriet Jacobs, whose memoir was the first book-length autobiography written by a formerly enslaved African American woman, died in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 1897. By then, she was in her 80s ...

Resting in the windowsills of the Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton, North Carolina, are the silhouettes of women appearing behind sheer floral curtains; their profiles overlook the large ...

The letter was signed, “No longer yours ... Most scholars had assumed that Yellin, who spent three decades researching Harriet Jacobs, had tracked down most of what could be found about the ...

Abolitionist and writer Harriet Jacobs, born in North Carolina, travelled to Steventon, Oxfordshire, in 1845. She described visiting "little thatched cottages" and said she did not see "the ...

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 ...

John Swanson Jacobs' long-lost autobiography is a look inside life as a slave : NPR's Book of the Day Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their ...

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.