Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements ... and an infuriated Norcom would sell her and her child. A child was conceived. Harriet felt "it was something to ...

Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813. Her life has the air of a novel, so unusual were her experiences. As a child, she lived with both her enslaved parents until ...

When instead she and her two young children were threatened with exile ... In 1865, The Freedmen’s Record published a profile about Harriet Jacobs, describing her as “one of the most zealous ...

Sawyer eventually purchases the children, but he does not free them ... It's also the birthplace of Harriet Jacobs, and the first capital of the colony of North Carolina. Jacobs was a woman ...

Harriet Jacobs' personal journey from slavery to freedom ... a man with more prestige than her master, had two children by him - really wanted to be sure that the children were freed, she kept ...

Clarification: A Datebook article June 23 on Harriet Jacobs stated that Thomas Jefferson fathered a child by his slave, Sally Hemings. The matter has been controversial for 200 years. In 1998 ...

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 ...

For seven years, runaway slave Harriet Jacobs hid in a tiny attic to elude the cruel owner who pursued her and threatened to sell her children. Jacobs’ heroic escape from slavery, retold in her ...