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 Harriet and Louisa Matilda Jacobs and students, Jacobs School, Alexandria, Virginia, 1864 |
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| Harriet Jacobs, Virtual Commons, Bridgewater State University | Harriet Jacobs,by Cuerden - Journal of the Civil War Era, Public Domain | Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection, Journal of the Civil War Era, Public Domain |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself, Public Domain |
Harriet Jacobs was a remarkable woman who was born into slavery in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina, and died free in Washington, D.C., at the age of eighty-four. In her writing, she put an individual face on major social and political events of her era, particularly one of the most inhumane aspects of enslaved womanhood, sexual abuse and molestation by white men. After escaping from her master, she spent seven long years enduring great discomfort in the space she called “my dismal little hole,” a 9’ x 7’ x 3’ crawlspace above the porch of her grandmother, emerging only occasionally late at night to try to walk. - NEH.gov, YouTube