This brief biography of Harriet Jacobs by Glenna Matthews, indicates a couple of events that occurred in Jacobs life. Also from the short article it states how Jacobs wrote about her life in her novel titled, Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, and what she did to get it published. In the article there were three terms that were confusing and they are; substantial, subsequent, and sanction. Substantial means that something is of considerable importance, size, or worth. The following term, subsequent, indicates that someone or something is coming after someone or something in time, or following someone or something. Lastly, sanction can be defined as two different meanings. The first meaning is when someone was a threatened penalty for disobeying