Norcom
was bent on exploiting her sexually, but having failed to secure a future with the black man she loved, she chose for herself the lesser evil, and became the mistress of a then unmarried...
Occupation
Harriet Jacobs
As child, adolescent, and young woman (and chattel slave) Hatty worked as servant and nursemaid in two successive households in Edenton. The first was that of James Norcom
, senior, whose household she joined...
Textual Features
Harriet Jacobs
HJ
uses fictitious names for others in her story besides herself. Her owner James Norcom
appears as Dr Flint, her loverSamuel Tredwell Sawyer
as Mr Sands, and her employer Nathaniel Parker Willis
as Mr...
Violence
Harriet Jacobs
HJ
had been sent away by her owner, James Norcom
, because she had again rejected him sexually; he was also planning to break in her children to plantation work. She now ran away and...
