Question

Famous slave in South America who successfully broke from slavery was ______.

Answer 1

Answer:

Harriet Jacobs

Explanation:

Harriet Jacobs was an African-American writer who escaped slavery and was subsequently released. It was devastating and reformatory. Harriet Jacobs, who was born a slave in North Carolina, taught the lady to read and write. When his wife died, Jacobs was sold to a white master, forcing her to have sex. Jacobs resisted him, found another white lover, and had two children from him. Her children went to her grandmother. “It seems less humiliating to cope with one's own desire rather than forced possession,” he wrote honestly. He escaped from his owner and made a gossip on his way to the North.  She was very afraid of getting caught and being sent back to slavery and punished, hiding in her master's city, in the dark roof of her grandmother for almost seven years. He lived with the images of his beloved children, which he watched from the madmen he opened on the ceiling. Finally he fled north and settled in Rochester in New York. Here, Frederick Douglass was publishing an anti-slavery newspaper called North Star, and a women's rights congress was held nearby (Seneca Falls). Jacobs became friends with the anti-slavery Amy Post, Quaker, who encouraged him to write his autobiography. Lydia Child was the editor of the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym “Linda Brent”. Quite frankly, the black slave condemned the sexual exploitation of women. Like Douglass's book, Jacobs's book is the part of the style of slave stories that goes back to Equal to Olauda at the time of colonies.