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Harriet Jacobs

1813 - 1897

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Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was sexually harassed by her enslaver. When he threatened to sell her children if she did not submit to his desire, she hid in a tiny crawl space under the roof of her grandmother's house, so low she could not stand up in it. After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free North, where she was reunited with her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda and her brother John S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Jacobs has received more than 575,558 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Harriet Jacobs is the 4,823rd most popular writer, the 6,641st most popular biography from United States and the 534th most popular American Writer.

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  • 580k

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  • 48.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Harriet Jacobs ranks 4,823 out of 7,302. Before her are Juhan Liiv, Milena Rudnytska, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Jaroslav Pelikan, Werner Bergengruen, and David Weber. After her are Marc Okrand, Robert of Torigni, Ōtomo no Tabito, Zig Ziglar, W. W. Jacobs, and Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Harriet Jacobs ranks 65. Before her are Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Franz Delitzsch, Isidore Pils, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Japetus Steenstrup, and János Simor. After her are Karel Sabina, Félix María Zuloaga, Gennady Nevelskoy, Theodor Kotschy, Gaëtan de Rochebouët, and Narciso Campero. Among people deceased in 1897, Harriet Jacobs ranks 68. Before her are James Legge, Japetus Steenstrup, Adam Asnyk, Dimitrie Ghica, William Henry Conley, and Jan Heemskerk. After her are Charles Blondin, Léon Gautier, Lea Ahlborn, Francesco Brioschi, Juan Idiarte Borda, and Isaac Pitman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harriet Jacobs ranks 6,641 out of 20,380. Before her are Merrick Garland (1952), Tiffani Thiessen (1974), Haley Lu Richardson (1995), Gunther Schuller (1925), David Weber (1952), and Sean Patrick Flanery (1965). After her are Marc Okrand (1948), Barbara Hammer (1939), Dennis Russell Davies (1944), Zig Ziglar (1926), Eva Angelina (1985), and Clarence Williams III (1939).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Harriet Jacobs ranks 534. Before her are James Lee Burke (1936), Irving Wallace (1916), David E. Kelley (1956), Chaim Potok (1929), Jaroslav Pelikan (1923), and David Weber (1952). After her are Marc Okrand (1948), Zig Ziglar (1926), Stanley G. Weinbaum (1902), Jim Harrison (1937), Joe R. Lansdale (1951), and Candy Barr (1935).

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