On this day, February 11 in 1813 Harriet Jacobs was born.
Harriett Jacob’s was an African-American 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".
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