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Harriet Jacobs contributed to American society beyond her controversial expose of autobiographical works. She was apart of the reform movement to abolish slavery and disclose the myths about the state of submission. For Jacobs, writing was more than sharing her story as a former slave; a way to cleanse herself from the abuse and torture in the hands of her former master Norcom. It was a desperate plea to end all suffering in the hands of someone having the authority over another. She also further the progression of women's rights for enslaved black women in the south. She "especially intended to get people to understand the horrors of slavery for women. Jacobs achieved her goal by seeking to touch the hearts of Northern white women and accordingly, wrote to the extent possible in their idiom."(2). After her book, she continued to struggle for African American rights because these privileges were indeed entiled theirs.Besides her major literary contributions, Jacobs achieved greater heights with communities. She was a member of various groups which included the Female Anti-Sla
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Rewards......
Jacobs would not be fully rewarded until 1987, when Dr. Yellin, a professor of English published an edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl with Harvard University Press. Yellin issued the print of Harriet Jacobs story that featured chronicled descriptions of Jacobs' remarkable passage across advocating freedom in nineteenth century America. Her memoir has won the respectable Frederick Douglass Book Prize given by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for its examination and analysis of slavery, resistance, and abolition. The documents which included letters to the other abolitionist, friends and family was collected, and consists of approximately one thousand documents. Over three hundred will be included in the published Papers, along with a numerous amount of others that was incorporated into the documents. "To this day, Harriet Jacobs is the only African-American woman held in slavery whose papers are known to exist" (4).
Work Cited:
5."AAWW Biographies." NYPL, Digital Collections. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/bio2.html.
1. "Harriet A. Jacobs (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897." Documenting the American South homepage. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/bio.html
2."Harriet Jacobs." The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. http://www.unc.edu/~ptracy/HarrietJacobsPage.htm.
3."Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence." Yale University. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. http://www.yale.edu/glc/harriet/docs.htm.
4. Harriet Jacobs Papers Project. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. http://harrietjacobspapers.org/.