Jacob D. Green
Jacob D. Green (August 24, 1813 – unknown) was an African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ... writer and lecturer. Born into Slavery in the United States, slavery in Maryland, he wrote a slave narrative after escaping from his enslaver in 1848. Childhood Jacob was born into slavery with 113 other slaves on a plantations in the American South, plantation in Queen Ann's County, Maryland, with only his mother as family. Judge Charles Earle put Jacob to work at age eight running chores and giving water to the other slaves. When Jacob was twelve, his mother was sold to a trader, and all he said about his mother was that she was a good slave. Similar to Mr. Cobb's saying, she said if you did what you're told and stay out of trouble your master would treat you wel ...
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