biography
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Jacobs, Harriet Ann
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| female
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| lived:
| (1813–97)
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| biography:
| Escaped slave and writer, born in Edenton, North Carolina, USA. Born into slavery, she was threatened by the sexual advances of her owner, Dr James Norcom; later she had two children by a white man. She escaped from slavery and hid for seven years in her grandmother's attic, then made her way to New York City and worked there as a domestic servant. Under the pen name Linda Brent, she wrote the story of her experiences in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861). She worked as a nurse during the Civil War and then lived in Washington, DC. Her book was long forgotten until discovered in the 1980s. |
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