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	Office of Institutional Diversity : Bridgewater State College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Harriet Ann Jacobs, writer, abolitionist and reformer, was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina in 1813.
		Harriet's son Joseph was born in 1829 and her daughter Louisa Matilda was born in 1833.
		Harriet Jacobs finally purchased the plates of her book and had it published by a Boston printer "for the author" in 1861.
	www.bridgew.edu /HOBA/Jacobs.cfm (778 words)

	Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
		Slave women were excluded from patriarchal definitions of true womanhood; the white patriarchy instead formally defined them as producers and as reproducers of a new generation of slaves, and, informally, as sexual objects.
		Jacobs is writing her narrative within a society that insists that white women conform to one set of sexual practices and that fl women conform to a completely contradictory set.
		Concerning the period in hiding, point out that the date of Jacobs's escape has been documented by her master's "wanted" ad of June, 1835, and the date of her Philadelphia arrival has been documented by June, 1842 correspondence; both are reproduced in the standard edition.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jacobs.html (975 words)

	Harriet Ann Jacobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American abolitionist and writer perhaps her leader Nasir Jones helped her.
		Harriet inherited the status of both her parents as a slave by birth.
		Harriet was one of many escaped slaves who wrote autobiographical narratives in an effort to shape opinion in the Northern United States on the "peculiar institution" of slavery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriet_Jacobs (638 words)

	archive - Vivanco: Literary Influences on Harriet Jacobs
		Thus, Jacobs places herself in a weak position in society so that her intended audience—“the women of the North” (6)—could sympathize with her situation, if not as a slave, at least as a woman, weak and vulnerable like the heroines of sentimental novels.
		Jacobs proves that it was slavery itself that forced her to act in that way, and that slavery is therefore responsible for her loss of innocence.
		Jacobs is more powerful than him in language use, but he has the power to strike her and abuse her whenever he wants to because the law protects him.
	www.thirdspace.ca /articles/vivanco.htm (5451 words)

	American Passages - Unit 7. Slavery and Freedom: Authors
		Born into slavery in North Carolina, Harriet Ann Jacobs was raised both by her free fl grandmother and by a white mistress who taught her to read.
		Jacobs eventually determined that she should publicize her own story of exploitation and escape in order to raise public awareness about the condition of women held in slavery.
		Jacobs was finally freed from slavery in 1853, when her New York employer's wife, Cornelia Willis, bought her from the Norcom family for three hundred dollars and then emancipated her.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit07/authors-7.html (718 words)

	Annotated Bibliography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
		She examines how Jacobs must use the male model of "autobiographical representation, since it is the only one available; simultaneously, though, she must narratively subscribe to a female-centered version of the American myth of identity formation" (4 of 14).
		Jacobs appeals to the roles of domesticity understood by the white, female, and nineteenth century mother to encourage their sympathy and support in order to abolish slavery.
		Jacobs’ story is not a simple narrative strategy, it is a text filled with "ironies and silences and spaces [in which she] makes not quite adequate forms more truly her own" (236).
	www.uah.edu /womensstudies/aaww/jacobs_annobib.htm (1507 words)

	Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
		Slave women were excluded from patriarchal definitions of true womanhood; the white patriarchy instead formally defined them as producers and as reproducers of a new generation of slaves, and, informally, as sexual objects.
		Jacobs is writing her narrative within a society that insists that white women conform to one set of sexual practices and that fl women conform to a completely contradictory set.
		Concerning the period in hiding, point out that the date of Jacobs's escape has been documented by her master's "wanted" ad of June, 1835, and the date of her Philadelphia arrival has been documented by June, 1842 correspondence; both are reproduced in the standard edition.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/jacobs.html (975 words)

	Harriet Jacobs biography
		Harriet had her grandmother talk to Samuel, reminding him she was still alive and wanted him to redeem his pledge of emancipating the children.
		Harriet finally admitted she was a fugitive slave, and her employer enlisted a judge and a lawyer, who advised Harriet to vacate the city immediately.
		Harriet placed her son in a trade, left her daughter at home with the friend to attend school, and then realized the true meaning of freedom.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/jaco-har.htm (7622 words)

	Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence
		The Harriet Jacobs Papers Project is organizing these items into a two-volume documentary edition of papers by and about the 19th-century African-American author, abolitionist, and reformer Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), to be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
		Jacobs describes her relief work among the fugitives from slavery who had fled to Washington, D.C. "I found men, women and children all huddled together, without any distinction or regard to age or sex.
		Harriet and her daughter Louisa were active in educational and relief work in Savannah, Georgia.
	www.yale.edu /glc/harriet/docs.htm (826 words)

	Harriet Jacobs "Linda Brent" (1818-1896)
		Harriet Jacobs site by Julie Adams at the University of Virginia Crossroads site includes an introduction, glossary, links, and a search feature.
		The Harriet Jacobs page at the Africans in America site includes pictures, letters, and the full text of the handbill offering a reward for her capture.
		Jacobs was perhaps justified, then, in believing that he had enough clout to shield her from her oppressive master.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/jacobs.htm (407 words)

	Amazon.ca: Harriet Jacobs: A Life: Books: Jean Fagan Yellin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Where Jacobs omitted what "might detract from the story of her freedom struggle," Yellin goes behind her narrative's foreground (the terror of slavery, particularly for women) to restore "all the extras." Dimension and history are given to the Jacobs family and the Norcross family, as well as the Edenton, N.C., community they share.
		And she is not content merely to paint the broad technicolor picture, but also to reduce the story of Jacobs' daily life to its very nuts and bolts, the struggle to keep food on the table, to keep herself and her family at the imparting end of charity.
		Researching Harriet Jacobs' book, INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL, must have been a daunting task for Yellin, but the scholarship she presents in her 1987 Harvard edition of INCIDENTS gives a clearer picture of the struggle Harriet Jacobs endured during her years in slavery.
	www.amazon.ca /Harriet-Jacobs-Jean-Fagan-Yellin/dp/0465092896 (1573 words)

	Harriet Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jacobs, Harriet Ann or Brent, Linda (1813?-1897), African American writer, known especially for her autobiography, which is one of the most significant slave narratives by an African American woman.
		Harriet Jacobs published her 1861 autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself under the pseudonym Linda Brent.
		Harriet Jacobs lived with her daughter in Washington, D.C., until her death on March 7, 1897.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/micha_10.html (813 words)

	Biography of Harriet Ann Jacobs
		Writer, abolitionist and reformer Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, the daughter of two slaves owned by different masters.
		In retaliation, Norcom sent Harriet to one of his plantations to be broken in as a field hand.
		Harriet hid for six years and eleven months in a space under the front porch roof of Molly Horniblow's house.
	www.ncwriters.org /services/lhof/inductees/hjacobs.htm (1078 words)

	To Take Arms - In the Eyes of a Critic
		Playwright Susan Flakes is determined to prove the luminous humanity of her heroine Harriet Jacobs and expose the inhumanity and lechery of the slave owner, Dr. Norcom, which she easily does.
		Flakes has adapted the story of Harriet Ann Jacobs, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent in the 1861 autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." A young slave in North Carolina, Harriet (the lovely Sanaa Lathan) is given the unusual privilege of an education, and she particularly loves Lord Byron and Shakespeare.
		Harriet decides she would rather give her body willingly to the white man she thinks she loves, the insipid Sam (an overheated BK Kennelly).
	becker_tv.tripod.com /totake.htm (722 words)

	Harriet Ann Jacobs
		Because the niece was a minor, Harriet became the property of her father, Dr. James Norcom, who sexually harassed her.
		When Harriet learned that the doctor was building a cottage in the country where he planned to take her as his concubine, she was desperate.
		Harriet could lie in the dark crawlspace and watch her children play through a hole she had drilled in the wall.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/7335/106805 (455 words)

	Amazon.com: Harriet Jacobs: A Life: Books: Jean Fagan Yellin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This a biography of Harriet Jacobs as a Black woman facing the crises of her time, both in public political life and in personal and economic life.
		As such, as is her practice, Jacobs takes a broad view, so what we read about Jacobs is continually inserted into the changing events of the nation, of Black people, of women.
		What is most compelling is Jacob's struggle to involve herself in the antislavery movement by writing her book, and then the story of Jacob's struggles to fight for support to the freed slaves and war refugees.
	www.amazon.com /Harriet-Jacobs-Jean-Fagan-Yellin/dp/0465092896 (2722 words)

	Letters From a Slave Girl - a Wonderkorner.com review
		Letters from a Slave Girl is based on the life of Harriet Jacobs, a young slave girl who escaped to freedom in the 1840s.
		Harriet Ann Jacobs was born in Edenton, North Carolina in 1813.
		In 1842, after Harriet was certain that her children would be able to come with her, she escaped by boat and eventually found her way to New York city.
	www.peak.org /~bonwritr/BOOK_ltrsslavegirl.htm (283 words)

	Term Papers On Jacob, Research Papers, Essays
		Summary and review of Harriet Jacob's autobiographical narrative, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".
		A comparison of the characters Harriet Ann Jacobs in the autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", and Genji in "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu.
		This paper discusses Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs) style of writing in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".
	www.essaysportal.com /essay/jacob.html (334 words)

	Harriet A. Jacobs (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897 and Lydia Maria Francis Child, 1802-1880, edited by Incidents in the Life of ...
		Harriet A. Jacobs (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897 and Lydia Maria Francis Child, 1802-1880, edited by Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
		Harriet Jacobs' report "Letter from Teachers of the Freedmen," in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, April 16, 1864.
		Harriet Jacobs' report "Life Among the Contrabands," in The Liberator September 5, 1862
	docsouth.unc.edu /fpn/jacobs/menu.html (366 words)

	Amy Kirby Post History of Rochester NY at Mt Hope Cemetery
		One such friendship was with Harriet Jacobs, an escaped slave.
		Jacobs stayed with the Posts for almost a year while she was in Rochester, and Post encouraged her to write her autobiography.
		Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1861.
	www.fomh.org /Stories/Post.htm (2666 words)

	Harriet Ann Jacobs
		Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery at Edenton, North Carolina in 1813.
		Harriet's maternal grandmother, Molly Horniblow had been freed during the American Revolution.
		Harriet lay in the dark hiding place while mice and rats crawled over her.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies/106805 (455 words)

	PAL: Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
		Write a paper comparing Jacobs and Douglass and based on the following central quotations from each narrative: "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs) and "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" (Douglass).
		Explore the particular obstacles Linda Brent faces and their significance for women at the end of the twentieth century: sexual harassment, poor mothers' legal rights, and difficulties for advancement when faced with responsibilities and care for children.
		Jacobs ends her narrative "with freedom, not in the usual way, with marriage." Comment on the implication here that freedom matters more to Linda Brent than marriage.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/jacobs.html (545 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/A Slave Is Tortured
		Harriet Ann Jacobs, born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813, eventually escaped to the North, where she wrote a narrative about her ordeal of slavery.
		The book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, recounts how Jacobs was hidden in the crawl space of her grandmother's house for seven years in order to escape the sexual advances of her master.
		In chapter nine, Jacobs describes the torture and death of a slave on a neighboring plantation, sometime in the 1820s.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3h1516.html (103 words)

	Amazon.com: Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays (Cambridge Studies in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single most read and studied Black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis.
		Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Deborah M. Garfield $28.99
		Jacobs, Harriet A.--(Harriet Ann),--1813-1897.--Incidents in the life of a slave girl
	www.amazon.com /Harriet-Jacobs-Incidents-Slave-Girl/dp/0521497795 (1229 words)

	Amy Kirby Post
		Only four of the children live to be adults (Mary - the daughter of Isaac and Hannah, Jacob, Joseph, and Willet).
		Jacobs, Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," Chapter 39, at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/HJCH39.htm current as of 2/8/00 (mentions relationship with Post).
		Lyons, Mary E., "Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs, c1997 at http://www.lyonsdenbooks.com/html/jacobs2.htm (mentions relationship with Post).
	winningthevote.org /APost.html (1400 words)

	PAL: Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
		Write a paper comparing Jacobs and Douglass and based on the following central quotations from each narrative: "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs) and "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" (Douglass).
		Explore the particular obstacles Linda Brent faces and their significance for women at the end of the twentieth century: sexual harassment, poor mothers' legal rights, and difficulties for advancement when faced with responsibilities and care for children.
		Jacobs ends her narrative "with freedom, not in the usual way, with marriage." Comment on the implication here that freedom matters more to Linda Brent than marriage.
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/jacobs.html (395 words)

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		Marion Brenner: Sharon Marshall; Harriet Kruger; Judd and Alisa Davis and Family; Rita Moss; Ruth and Al Goodman; Shirley Fisch; Libby Plafker; The Zukoffs.
		Rabbi Sanford and Paula Dresin in honor of the recent marriage of Daughter Judith to Brandon Tuman: Ray and Morris Freschman; The Zussman Family; Eleanor and Mark Weinglass; Shirley Fisch.
		Michael and Rosanne Cabelli in honor of the Marriage of their Son Jacob to Judith Eisen: The AKSE Dance Group; The Zukoffs.
	www.akse.org /Shofar_Donations.htm (851 words)

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		Jean Fagan Yellin will be presenting a lecture entitled "Writing Harriet Jacobs" at 7p.
		Jean Fagan Yellin, Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at Pace University, is best known for her authentication of the work of Harriet Jacobs, a former slave who published a narrative in 1861 that stunningly critiques the racial and sexual double standards of her day.
		On Wednesday 18 October 2006, Dr. Yellin will be presenting a public lecture at UCCS entitled “Writing Harriet Jacobs.” Please join us for this exciting event.
	web.uccs.edu /english320 (1513 words)

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