Explore the fascinating life of Louisa Jacobs, daughter of Harriet Jacobs (author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), with scholar Susan Goodier. Learn about her connection to Upstate New York, from attending school in Clinton and participating in Underground Railroad activities in Dolgeville, to touring with Susan B. Anthony and serving as a companion to the daughters of famous columnist Fanny Fern.
Louisa Jacobs attended the Kellogg School in Clinton, NY. She also spent summers living with the Brockett family of Brockett's Bridge/Dolgeville, becoming involved with their Underground Railroad activities. She served as a companion and governess to the daughters of Fanny Fern (the highest-paid newspaper columnist in the nineteenth century), then, after the Civil War, she toured upstate NY with Susan B. Anthony and the American Equal Rights Association. Finally, she spent a summer working in the Martin family jam and jelly business in Auburn, NY.