Author

Books by Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, and escaped to the North in 1842 after years of resistance and hiding. She worked as a nursemaid in New York before writing her memoir with assistance from abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. She published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. During and after the Civil War she did relief work in the South with freed people. Her authorship of the narrative was disputed for over a century and confirmed by scholar Jean Fagan Yellin in 1987.