It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North ...

Jean Fagan Yellin talked about her biography [Harriet Jacobs: A Life], published by Basic Books. It profiled the life of slave woman Harriet Jacobs. The author explains that Harriet Jacobs became ...

In 1860, as Harriet Jacobs’ book was about to appear, John Jacobs decided to republish his own narrative. Before a voyage to Brazil, he entrusted the text to a London magazine called Leisure Hour.

Updated November 22, 2024, at 3:59 p.m. W hen History professor Tiya A. Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet A ...

Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their experiences of enslavement in the South. But while searching for information about Jacobs' children ...

John Swanson Jacobs was enslaved in Edenton North Carolina with his sister Harriet Jacobs. Both became abolitionists, wrote autobiographies.

Saturday, May 25, 2025 -- John S. Jacobs was a North Carolina fugitive, an abolitionist and the brother of canonical author Harriet Jacobs. His own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

In 1860, as Harriet Jacobs’ book was about to appear, John Jacobs decided to republish his own narrative. Before a voyage to Brazil, he entrusted the text to a London magazine called Leisure Hour.

John Swanson Jacobs was enslaved in Edenton North Carolina with his sister Harriet Jacobs. Both became abolitionists, wrote autobiographies.

John Swanson Jacobs was enslaved in Edenton North Carolina with his sister Harriet Jacobs. Both became abolitionists, wrote autobiographies.

A furious, forgotten account by John Swanson Jacobs, first published, uncensored, in Australia, 1855. Its tone is sharply different from the respectable conventions to which slave narraives ...