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American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)
Also known as: Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Linda Brent, Харриет Джейкобс, هارييت آن جاكوبس, ハリエット・アン・ジェイコブズ
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- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (2000)
- The Harriet Jacobs family papers
- Life under slavery
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The grandmother of slaves