Ten years later she moved to Alexandria, Virginia, where she helped the Civil War effort by organizing medical care and established The Jacobs Free School, a institution that provided refugees with black teachers. In 1861, Jacobs wrote her autobiography and only book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent. She deals directly with the racial impact of the slave revolts like the Nat turner uprising of 1831, and legislation like the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which subjected runaways in the North to deportation back to the South. All the names and locations in her story have been changed to protect those who helped her. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is now included in the canon of Women's Literature.
Slavery is trouble for men, but it is far more terrible for women.
Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own. The Norton Anthology of Women in Literature, 2nd edition. Susie King Taylor was born on August 6, 1848,at the Grest Farm in Liberty County, Georgia. Her parents were slaves for the Grest family. While she was living with her grandmother, Taylor learned how to read and write.