1928–2014
Biography · Literature
Harriet Jacobs
1813–1897
United States
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Jacobs hid for years to escape slavery before publishing Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a searing firsthand account of bondage and resistance.
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1924–1987
1913–2008