Harriet Jacobs

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Frederick Douglass, between 1880 and 1890; photo by George Kendall Warren.

8 Influential Abolitionist Texts

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9 Obscure Literary Terms

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Periods of American Literature

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Pro and Con: Reparations for Slavery

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

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Were the Nazis Socialists?

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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Also Known As	Linda Brent • Harriet A. Jacobs • Harriet Ann Jacobs
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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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

United States official and diplomat

Solomon Northup: image from Twelve Years a Slave (1853)

Solomon Northup

American farmer and writer

Charlotte Forten Grimké

Charlotte Forten Grimké

American abolitionist and educator

Frances E.W. Harper

Frances E.W. Harper

American author and social reformer

Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World…

David Walker

American abolitionist

Angelina Grimké

American abolitionist

Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving, 1872, after an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

American writer and educator

portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

American author

Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe

American writer

Bronson Alcott

Bronson Alcott

American philosopher and educator

Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child

American author

William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown

American writer

Charles Gordone

American playwright

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

American author

Kevin Young

Kevin Young

American poet, essayist, and editor

Anna Murray Douglass

Anna Murray Douglass

American abolitionist

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American writer

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American author

Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks

American poet and educator

Isabel Wilkerson

Isabel Wilkerson

American author