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Also Known As Harriet Ann Jacobs • Harriet A. Jacobs • Linda Brent
Born 1813 • Edenton • North Carolina
Died March 7, 1897 (aged 84) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Notable Works “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself”

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