EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: HARRIET JACOBS P/126

                                                       Read Part One HERE                                                                                                                

In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Harriet Jacobs. She lived from 1813 - 1897. From 1862 - 1866 Harriet devoted herself to relief efforts in and around Washington, D.C, among former slaves who had become refugees of war. 

With her daughter she founded a school in Alexandria, Virginia, which lasted from 1863 to 1865, when both mother and daughter returned South to Savannah, Giorgia, to engage in further relief work among the freedmen and freedwomen. 

The spring of 1867 found Harriet back in Edenton, actively promoting the welfare of the ex-slaves. This sense of dedication and solidarity with those who had been enslaved kept Harriet at work in the South until racial violence ultimately drove her and her daughter back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where in 1870 she opened a boarding house. 

By the mid-1880s Harried had settled with her daughter in Washington, D.C. where she died in 1897. 

Read Part One Hundred And Twenty-Seven HERE