Writer Harriet Jacobs told her story of captivity and escape in her 1861 novel called “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The North Carolina slave girl was handed down through generations of the Horniblow family until she became the property of Dr. James Norcom. Norcom would not allow Jacobs to marry and forced advances on her for over a decade.
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