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Harriet Jacobs

1813 - 1897

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Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and 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". Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. 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. 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. Jacobs. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harriet Jacobs is the 1,087th most popular writer (up from 4,823rd in 2019), the 1,546th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,640th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Harriet Jacobs ranks 1,087 out of 7,302. Before her are Ibn Sirin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Dubravka Ugrešić, Yakub Kolas, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Karl-Maria Kertbeny. After her are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ernst Barlach, James Thomson, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Alfred Kubin, and Emil Ludwig.

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Among people born in 1813, Harriet Jacobs ranks 15. Before her are Franz Miklosich, Georg Büchner, Baron Alexander von Bach, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Henry Bessemer. After her are Theophil Hansen, James Dwight Dana, Thomas Andrews, Princess Marie of Orléans, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, and Alexander Dargomyzhsky. Among people deceased in 1897, Harriet Jacobs ranks 15. Before her are Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, James Joseph Sylvester, and Salomon August Andrée. After her are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Sebastian Kneipp, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, Andrés Bonifacio, and Prince William of Baden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Jacobs ranks 1,546 out of 20,380. Before her are Edith Wharton (1862), Gary Gilmore (1940), Henry Way Kendall (1926), Dennis Rader (1945), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), and Shia LaBeouf (1986). After her are Joel Schumacher (1939), Anjelica Huston (1951), Dr. Dre (1965), Vincente Minnelli (1903), Mark Margolis (1939), and Michael J. Sandel (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harriet Jacobs ranks 123. Before her are Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Clifford D. Simak (1904), William Gibson (1948), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Edith Wharton (1862), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807). After her are Tess Gerritsen (1953), Roger Zelazny (1937), Jeff Lindsay (1952), John Cheever (1912), Will Durant (1885), and Walter Lippmann (1889).

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