id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6160 Harriet Jacobs - Wikipedia .html text/html 10253 1019 74 In April 1835, Norcom finally moved Jacobs from her grandmother's to the plantation of his son, some 6 miles (9.7 km) away.[24] He also threatened to expose her children to the hard life of the plantation slaves and to sell them, separately and without the mother, after some time.[25] In June 1835, Harriet Jacobs decided to escape. After the election of president Lincoln in November 1860, the slavery question caused first the secession of most slave states and then the Civil War. Thousands of African Americans, having escaped from slavery in the South, gathered just north of the front. However, Yellin found and used a variety of historical documents, including from the Amy Post papers at the University of Rochester, state and local historical societies, and the Horniblow and Norcom papers at the North Carolina state archives, to establish both that Harriet Jacobs was the true author of Incidents, and that the narrative was her autobiography, not a work of fiction. Works by Harriet Jacobs at DocSouth including Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6160.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6160.txt