Reward notice issued for the return of Harriet Jacobs Coping with sexual harassment Norcom, thus he and his sister stayed together. Because of legal restrictions on manumission, Mark had to remain his mother's slave until in 1847/48 she finally succeeded in getting him freed. Afterwards Molly Horniblow was set free, and her own son Mark became her slave. Friends of hers bought Molly Horniblow and Mark with money Molly had been working hard to save over the many years of her servitude at the tavern. Being sold at public auction was a traumatic experience for twelve-year old John. Among them were Harriet's brother John, her grandmother Molly Horniblow and Molly's son Mark. Norcom hired John, so that the Jacobs siblings lived together in his household.įollowing the death of the widow, her slaves were sold at the New Year's Day auction, 1828. Her brother John and most of her other property was inherited by the tavern keeper's widow. James Norcom (son-in-law of the deceased tavern keeper), became her de facto master. She willed Harriet to her three-year-old niece Mary Matilda Norcom. In 1825, the owner of Harriet and John Jacobs died. Although Harriet's brother John succeeded in teaching himself to read, he still wasn't able to write when he escaped from slavery as a young adult. Only very few slaves were literate, although it was only in 1830 that North Carolina explicitly outlawed teaching slaves to read or write.
She then lived with her owner, a daughter of the deceased tavern keeper, who taught her not only to sew, but also to read and write. When Jacobs was six years old, her mother died. The only child from that marriage, Harriet's half brother, was called Elijah after his father and always used Knox as his family name, which was the name of his father's enslaver.
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After Harriet's mother died, her father married a free African American. Harriet was convinced that her father should have been called Jacobs because his father was Henry Jacobs, a free white man. The baptism was conducted without the knowledge of Harriet's master, Dr. She and her brother John also used that name after having escaped from slavery. While Harriet's mother and grandmother were known by their owner's family name of Horniblow, Harriet used the opportunity of the baptism of her children to register Jacobs as their family name. Harriet and John's father was Elijah Knox, also enslaved, but enjoying some privileges due to his skill as an expert carpenter. But she had been kidnapped, and had no chance for legal protection because of her dark skin. Still, according to the same principle, mother and children should have been free, because Molly Horniblow, Delilah's mother, had been freed by her white father, who also was her owner. Under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, both Harriet and her brother John were enslaved at birth by the tavern keeper's family, as a mother's status was passed to her children.
Harriet Jacobs was born in 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina, to Delilah Horniblow, enslaved by the Horniblow family who owned a local tavern. Norcom and Molly Horniblow were communicants. Paul's Episcopal Church in Edenton, where Harriet Jacobs and her children were baptized, and where both Dr. Even in New York, her freedom was in danger until her employer was able to pay off her legal owner.ĭuring and immediately after the Civil War, she went to the Union-occupied parts of the South together with her daughter, organizing help and founding two schools for fugitive and freed slaves. She found work as a nanny and got into contact with abolitionist and feminist reformers. After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free North, where she was reunited with her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda and her brother John S. When he threatened to sell her children if she did not submit to his desire, she hid in a tiny crawl space under the roof of her grandmother's house, so low she could not stand up in it. Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer, whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Only known formal photograph of Harriet Jacobs, 1894
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