It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated ... preparing to put her children to work as plantation slaves, she had ...

Harriet Jacobs, whose memoir was the first book-length autobiography written by a formerly enslaved ... Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent, producing a work that was equal parts biographical ...

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 a formerly enslaved African American ...

As recently as two decades ago, the book was considered an obscure literary oddity written ... heroic Harriet Tubman and her work during the war as a Union spy," Yellin wrote in Jacobs' biography.

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 ...

Harriet Jacobs, Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer are three unsung heroes that helped inspire generations. Jacobs was born a slave in 1813. While there have been narratives written before by slaves ...

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated ... preparing to put her children to work as plantation slaves, she had ...

Collectively, their work is dedicated to the memory of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a trenchant autobiographical account of her enslavement in Edenton and ...