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.

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 ...

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.