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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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Birth: | 11th February, 1813 |
Death: | 7th March, 1897 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Nurse |
Harriet Ann Jacobs was born in Edenton, North Carolina, USA. She was an American author, nurse and abolitionist. She wrote an autobiographical novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, first serialized in a newspaper and published as a book in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. She worked as a nurse in Virginia during the Civil War. She wrote several books include: Right Circles, World Government, Lincoln, and Life Under Slavery(with Henry Bibb and Kate Drumgoold).
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