Edenton, North Carolina (c1813 – March 7, 1897) age ~84 yrs

Harriet Ann Jacobs, born enslaved, was an African American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs wrote an autobiography titled ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.’ It was first serialized in a newspaper. It was later published as a book in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Harriet Jacobs was the first woman to author a fugitive slave narrative in the United States. Incidents shows no less profoundly an African American woman’s resourcefulness, courage, and dauntless quest for freedom. Yet, nowhere in Jacobs’s autobiography, not even the title page, did its author reveal her own identity. Instead, Jacobs called herself “Linda Brent.”