Read the information about Harriet Jacobs, the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.In 1813, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in North Carolina. She learned to read as a child. In 1842, she escaped to freedom and began working to end slavery. In 1861, she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to tell her life story. In the book, she changes people’s names, including her own.Read the excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.I met my grandmother, who said, "Come with me, Linda;” and from her tone I knew that something sad had happened. She led me apart from the people, and then said, "My child, your father is dead.” Dead! How could I believe it? He had died so suddenly I had not even heard that he was sick. I went home with my grandmother. My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend. The good grandmother tried to comfort me. "Who knows the ways of God?” said she. "Perhaps they have been kindly taken from the evil days to come.”