Harriet Ann Brent Jacobs, better known as simply Harriet Jacobs, was the author of one of the most famous American slave narratives, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, published in 1861. She was born in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina. Her parents were Delilah and Elijah Jacobs, slaves who lived together as a family with Delilah's mother Molly Horniblow. Horniblow was the daughter of a North Carolina planter who was sent north and set free during the Revolutionary War, but was falsely re-enslaved and sent back to the south. In Edenton she worked as a caterer and saved up some money; she was also highly respected and esteemed by the black and white denizens of...
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