Summary: When Harriet Jacobs' enslaver threatened to sell her children away to the plantation unless she accepted his sexual abuse, she decided the only way to keep them safe was to run. But with no resources and no way to get north, where could she go instead? The answer is an astonishing one. Jacobs' story is one of the most dramatic and remarkable 'slave narratives' in United States history, yet for over 100 years, everyone believed it was fiction.<br> <br> With our guest Dr. Maria Windell, discover the incredible life and astonishing history of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and a powerful activist, abolitionist and educator in the ninteenth century United States.
