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 ...

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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 ...

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