It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North.

The Remarkable Life of Former Slave Harriet Jacobs Jean Fagan Yellin, distinguished professor emerita at Pace University, shares the story of Harriet Jacobs, as told in her book Harriet Jacobs, A ...

Harriet Jacobs, whose memoir was the first book-length autobiography written by a formerly enslaved African American woman, died in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 1897. By then, she was in her 80s ...

Resting in the windowsills of the Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton, North Carolina, are the silhouettes of women appearing behind sheer floral curtains; their profiles overlook the large ...

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged. By Jennifer Schuessler One day in 1855 ...

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its Steppenwolf for Young Adults 2007-2008 Season with the world premiere of Harriet Jacobs by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Hallie Gordon. The play is ...

Harriet Jacobs eventually gained her freedom and wrote an inspiring and acclaimed autobiography. On this Martin Luther King Day, we tell the story of an enslaved woman from Edenton who for seven ...

Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet A. Jacobs’ description of her experiences of surviving ...

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North.

It profiled the life of slave woman Harriet Jacobs. The author explains that Harriet Jacobs became the first-ever published slave woman with the publication of her book, Incidents in the Life of a ...