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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...