• Harriet Ann Jacobs escaped slavery and went on to write “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, which is one of the most influential slave narratives of all time.
• In 1813, Harriet Ann Jacobs escaped slavery and moved to New York where she wrote the powerful autobiography.
• American abolitionist and autobiographer who crafted her own experiences into an eloquent and uncompromising slave narrative.
• Jacobs still was taught to read at an early age. She was orphaned as a child and formed a bond with her maternal grandmother, Molly Horniblow, who had been freed from slavery.
• While still in her teens Jacobs became involved with a neighbor, Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, a young white lawyer by