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About Harriet Jacobs BIOGRAPHY Note: In Incidents, Harriet Jacobs used fictitious names to protect the identity of family members.The biography that appears below, uses the names scholars believe to be the true identities of her literary characters.
Discover the life and works of Harriet Jacobs, a former slave who wrote a powerful narrative of her experiences and became an abolitionist activist.
Harriet Jacobs, daughter of Delilah, the slave of Margaret Horniblow, and Daniel Jacobs, the slave of Andrew Knox, was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in the fall of 1813.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself: Electronic Edition. Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897 Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880, ed. by
A former North Carolina slave turned abolitionist and author, Harriet Jacobs was born in bondage in Edenton. In her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), Jacobs describes the abuse that she endured while a slave and is the best-known autobiography written by an African American woman during the 19th century.
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813 near Edenton, North Carolina. She enjoyed a relatively happy family life until she was six years old, when her mother died.
Harriet Ann Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina in 1813. After both her mother, Delilah, and father, Elijah, died during Jacobs's youth, she and her younger brother, John, were raised by their maternal grandmother, Molly Horniblow.
