It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated ... of her life as a slave. The book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ...
At the time she was the organization's curator of cultural history, and in 2008, Lanier organized a book release event in Edenton for Yellin's publishing of the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers.
After seven years of sexual harrassment by Dr. Norcom, Harriet Jacobs had had enough. In 1835 she escaped from Norcom, although she would remain in her hometown, hidden, for another seven years ...