Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Did Harriet Jacobs have any children? Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Did Harriet Jacobs have any children?

Yes, Harriet Jacobs had two children, a son named Joseph and a daughter named Louisa Matilda, fathered by a lawyer named Samuel Tredwell Sawyer. Throughout her narrative, Jacobs details her fierce efforts to protect her children from the horrors of slavery and to secure freedom for them.