Harriet Jacob was an African-American writer who ran away from slavery and soon got her freedom. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer who wrote: “from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Jacob tells about growing up as a slave going through it as a young child. Following this further, Jacob claims: “I had not lived fourteen years in slavery for nothing. I had felt, seen, and heard enough, to read the characters, and question the motives, of those around me. The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.”
