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Samuel Tredwell Sawyer (1800 – November 29, 1865) was an American attorney and politician. Although he served as Congressional Representative, today he is mostly remembered for fathering the two children of the young slave Harriet Jacobs, in whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, he features prominently.
A lawyer, newspaper editor, state legislator, and U.S. Congressman, Samuel T. Sawyer is most known for being Harriet Jacobs’ lover. He befriended and had a consensual relationship with the slave author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, lawyer, congressman, editor, collector of customs, and Confederate officer, was born in Edenton, Chowan County, the oldest son of Dr. Mathias and Margaret Hosmer Blair Sawyer.
To protect herself, she entered into an affair with a sympathetic neighbor, Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, by whom she bore two children. Enraged, Norcom intensified his threats and became violent.
31 de jul. de 2023 · Samuel Tredwell Sawyer (1800 – November 29, 1865) was an attorney and politician. Although he served as Congressional Representative, today he is mostly remembered for fathering the two children of the young slave Harriet Jacobs, in whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, he features prominently.
Samuel Tredwell Sawyer was a Whig congressman from North Carolina and a Confederate commissary during the Civil War. He was born in 1800, died in 1865, and served in the Twenty-fifth Congress from 1837 to 1839.
HJ 's two children were born into slavery, though their white father, Samuel Tredwell Sawyer, was not then their owner. Her son, Joseph, panned for gold in the California Gold Rush after he was...
