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John Swanson Jacobs
African-American abolitionist (1815 or 1817 – 1873)
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When Dr. James Norcom Sr. was born on 29 December 1778, in Edenton, Chowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Norcom, was 38 and his mother, Mary Miriam Standin, was 28. He married Mary Custis on 8 August 1801, in Chowan, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Chowan, Chowan, North Carolina, United States in 1850. He died on 9 November 1850, in Edenton, Chowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Saint Pauls Episcopal Churchyard, Edenton, Chowan, North Carolina, United States.
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John S. Jacobs, fugitive and abolitionist, like his more famous sister Harriet A. Jacobs, was the child of enslaved parents and born in Edenton, North Carolina. Their father, Elijah, was a carpenter; their mother, Delilah Horniblow, was the daughter of a woman who had been freed but re-enslaved around the time of the American Revolution.
In his 1861 “A True Tale of Slavery,” published anonymously in four installments in the English serial the Leisure Hour, Jacobs stated that he had four masters in his first eighteen years. Jailed late in 1833 after his sister's escape from their owner, Dr. James Norcom, John Jacobs and the children were later purchased by the Edenton lawyer Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, the father of Harriet's two children. Aware that Norcom recognized his loathing of slavery, Jacobs effectively engineered the sale. “My mind was made up,” he wrote, “that I must, in order to effect my escape, hide as much as possible my hatred to slavery, and affect a respect to my master, whoever he might be…. I must change owners in order to do that” (108).
John Jacobs became Sawyer's body servant, and when Sawyer was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Congress in March 1837, Jacobs went with him to Washington,