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 is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their experiences of enslavement in the South. But while searching for information about Jacobs' children ...

Picture Aretha Franklin, deep in a gospel-soul groove, wailing about "Dr. Feelgood." Then ponder, say, Debby Boone singing "You Light Up My Life." With her biography of Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan ...

A recent artist activation by Letitia Huckaby activates Jacobs's hometown as part of a larger initiative by Michelle Lanier and Johnica Rivers.

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

On February 11, 1813, Harriet Jacobs, fugitive slave, writer and abolitionist, was born in Edenton. Harriet spent her childhood unaware of her station in life.

Introduction : over-exposed, under-exposed : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Rafia Zafar -- "I disguised my hand" : writing versions of the truth in Harriet Jacobs's ...

When Harriet Jacobs hides in the narrow crawl space of an attic from her oppressors, she evokes images of Anne Frank in the annex. When she starts reading and starting a memoir that weaves the ...

You would expect an adaptation of Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” to be harrowing. Penned in 1861 and published through tortuous means, this is the autobio… ...

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 ...