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 ...

With the Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs project Lanier and Rivers draw ... I do not sit with my children in a home of my own, I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble.

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, whose memoir was the first book-length ... of the women he impregnates because he sells them and their children. The United States built its economy on treating people as chattels ...

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 ...

She escaped with her children in 1842 and began working for ... Not just a picture of Harriet Jacobs in the lobby or something, but a place where people can learn about the abolitionist history.” ...

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 ...

Harriet Jacobs, who escaped enslavement to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), created these three dolls for the children of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis around 1850-60.