The most noted escape to freedom that occurred in Edenton took place in 1842 when Harriet Jacobs, after seven years of hiding, fled the area with the assistance of local black watermen. Jacobs hid in a vessel bound for Philadelphia and then traveled to New York and Boston. She later described her harrowing enslavement and escape in a book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1858). To book a tour please send an email to [email protected].