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, 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 escaped her oppressors and lived until ... to Horniblow’s three-year-old niece Mary Matilda Norcom, the children now answered to Mary’s tyrannical father.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...