Harriet Ann Jacobs Research Paper

To take a look in early life of these women. Delilah and Elijah, parents of Harriet Ann Jacobs. They both deceased in her early years of life. She and her younger brother was left to be raised by their maternal grandmother, Molly Horniblow. Harriet was born in Edenton, North Carolina in the fall of 1813. At the age of six, Harriet was unaware that she was born into slavery and that she was the property of Margaret Horniblow. Before the death of her relatively kind mistress, she was taught how to read, write, and sew. Harriet had hoped to be freed by Margaret, but when Harriet was only eleven, Margaret suddenly died and she was bequeathed to Dr. James Norcom. By willed, she was bided upon a decision that initiated a lifetime of suffering and
Harriet soon guarded off Dr. Norcom by entering an affair with a prominent white lawyer named Samuel Treadwell. She beared Samuel two children, a boy and a girl. Their son name was Joseph and daughter, Louisa Matilda. Since Hariet was born into slavery, now that she had children, they are too. They belonged to Dr. Norcom. Harriet was feared by Dr. Norcom and she was so scared that he would get a hold to her children that she hid herself in the storeroom crawlspace at her grandmother’s house. She stayed there for eight years from 1835 to 1842. By the crawlspace being so tight and cramped she read, sewed, and watched over her children from a chink in the roof. Harriet waited eight years for an opportunity to escape to the North. In 1842, Harriet took a chance on escaping was able to make her way all the way to New York City by boat. She then was reunited with her children in NYC. Even though, she was at pity of the Fugitive Slave Law, which means wherever Harriet lived in the U.S., she could certainly be reclaimed by Dr. Norcom and he could return her to slavery at any given time. Then, in 1852 her employer, named Cornelia Grinnell Willis purchased Harriet’s freedom from the