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Harriet Jacobs
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 128 years ago |
Date of birth | January 1,1813 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Edenton |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of died | March 7,1897 |
Died | Washington |
D.C. | |
United States | |
Children | Louisa Matilda Jacobs |
Joseph Jacobs | |
Parents | Delilah Horniblow |
Elijah Knox | |
Rest place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
Siblings | John S. Jacobs |
Books | The Life of a Slave Girl |
Nationality | American |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 818589 |
Harriet Jacobs Life story
Harriet Jacobs 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". Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver.