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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Harriet Jacobs ... valuable," she said, "but Jacobs' story challenges that pro-slavery narrative by exposing the suffering that enslaved women had to endure, which is why her story is ...

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 ... preparing to put her children to work as plantation slaves, she had ...