… to a young Girl than useful.” Harriet Jacobs to Amy Post. March, 1854 Jacobs writes of the difficulty she has had in … condition.” “Jacobs School.” The Freedmen’s Record, March, 1865 The Freedmen’s Record reports on Jacobs’s work … dearer and sweeter to her than the present reality?—her people freed, and the school-house, built mainly by her own …