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Phebe Ann Jacobs
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| Born | July 1785 Hanover Township, New Jersey, U.S. (later Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey) |
| Died | February 28, 1850 (aged 64) Brunswick, Maine, U.S. |
Phebe Ann Jacobs (July 1785 – February 28, 1850) was an American Congregationalist, laundress, and free woman. Best known for her posthumous biography Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs, Jacobs was born into slavery on the Beverwyck plantation in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey.
During her life, she was enslaved by the family of the President of Dartmouth, then the President of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. In the final years of her life, she achieved emancipation and worked in Brunswick laundering clothes for students of Bowdoin.
In 1919, the New Jersey Historical Society claimed Jacobs was significant for "her rare attainments as a Christian, the strength of her faith, and her spirit of devotion."[1]
- ^ Society, New Jersey Historical (1919). Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Historical Society.
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