Harriet Ann Jacobs
Writer, Author
1813 – 1897
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Who was Harriet Ann Jacobs?
Harriet Ann Jacobs was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured. It is based on events of her own life.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1813
Edenton - Also known as
- Harriet Jacobs
- Siblings
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Died
- Mar 7, 1897
Washington, D.C.
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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