Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) was an American abolitionist and novelist. Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina. She escaped from Edenton by boat in 1842, and moved to New York. Abolitionist Nathaniel Parker Willis gave Jacobs a job as a nursemaid for his family.

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1813 - 1897 - American - Abolitionist - Slave - Edenton, North Carolina - 1842 - New York - Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Her most famous book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published under the pen name Linda Brent in 1861, places an emphasis on alleged sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women.

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1861 - African-American

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