Autor/-in: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born a slave in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina. She escaped captivity in 1842, and was formally freed in 1852. After corresponding with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Ann Jacobs was inspired to write her life story. After playing an active role in the antislavery movement, she died in Washington, D.C., in 1897.