Record #:

8685

Author(s):

Kent, Scotti

Abstract:

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton in 1813. Kent recounts episodes in her life up to the end of the Civil War. When she was twenty-two years old, she escaped from her master and hid in the small attic of her grandmother's house in a space measuring nine feet long and seven feet wide. Jacobs hid there for seven years before escaping by ship to the Free States. In 1861, she published a book about her life, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 10, Mar 2007, p82-84, 86, 88-89, il

Subject(s):

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897