Harriet Jacobs, Budding Author (1853)

This Day (An America 250 History Show) · Jul 7, 2022 · 17m

It’s July 7th. This day in 1853, Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman, writes her first letter to the editor, and begins to work on her memoirs. Her story, published almost ten years later under a pseudonym as “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” would paint a picture of slavery and sexual violence that was often not represented.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss Jacobs’s story, the impact of her work, and why it was lost to history for many years until fairly recently.

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