John S. Jacobs

Biography

John Swanson Jacobs (1815 or 1817 – December 19, 1873) was a Black author and abolitionist. After escaping from slavery in North Carolina, he became prominent in abolitionist circles of the northeastern United States. He was closely connected with the authors of the two slave narratives read most widely today, his sister Harriet Jacobs and his friend and ally Frederick Douglass.

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