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Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
In 2004, Yellin published an exhaustive biography (394 pages) entitled Harriet Jacobs: A Life. In a New York Times review of Yellin's 2004 biography, David S. Reynolds states that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl "and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave are commonly viewed as the two most important slave ...
Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman who wrote about her experience, also had a traumatic motherhood experience. In her book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Jacobs described how her owner threatened to take her children away from her if she didn't comply with his sexual advances.
Abolitionist and feminist Amy Post whom Harriet Jacobs had come to know through John, finally was the person to convince Harriet, who in 1853 started working on her Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, [23] published in January 1861.
Harriet Jacobs (2024) Underground Railroad, wrote slavery memoir [75] Henry James (2016) Writer [14] Thomas Jefferson (1861, 1904, 1986) 3rd president [9] Jesus (1966) Christianity founder; Chief Joseph on a 1968 stamp. Andrew Johnson (1938) 17th President; George Johnson (2002) Ground Zero firefighter; John H. Johnson (2012) Publisher [26] [34 ...
Narratives by enslaved women include the memoirs of Harriet Jacobs, Mary Prince, Mattie J. Jackson, and "old Elizabeth," among others. In her narrative, Mary Prince, a Bermuda-born woman and slave discusses her deep connection with her master's wife and the pity she felt for the wife as she witnessed the "ill-treatment" the wife suffered at the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Timothy Ballard’s book Slave Stealers: True Accounts Of Slave Rescues Then & Now is set for TV adaptation with 6 Underground actor and consultant and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke ...
1897 – Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (b. 1813) [70] 1901–present. 1913 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861) [71]