 Stressed out one night, finishing a cover letter for a job application and to burn off some steam after I hit send, I started following up a lead that I had, which was something about not John Jacobs, but Harriet Jacobs, John Jacobs's more famous sister, who's probably the best known black woman author of the 19th century and the author of a landmark autobiographical slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.