When Jacobs realized that her slave master might try and use her children as leverage against her she decided to run away from there and use her relationship with Sawyer to keep their children safe.
In North Carolina, Harriet Ann Jacobs was born in 1813. Margaret Horniblow, Harriet's more understanding mistress, had taught her to read and sew before her death in 1825. Harriet was only eleven years old when Horniblow passed away and was given to Dr James Norcom.
She would experience the miseries of slavery while living under his possession, and before she turned age thirteen, her new owner made her a sexual object of desire. Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, a white attorney, and Harriet developed a covert romance. Joseph and Louisa, two children Jacobs had with Sawyer by the time she was 20.
Harriet was resolved to gain her children's freedom by using her friendship with Sawyer as leverage. She believed that Norcom would sell the kids to their father if it looked like she had fled. Jacobs went to her free grandmother's house in the summer of 1835, where she spent the next seven years hiding in the attic crawlspace while sending letters to Norcom to mislead him about her whereabouts. In this manner, Sawyer purchased the freedom of her kids.
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