Jean Fagan Yellin (2004). Harriet Jacobs: A Life. New York. p. 126. «Idlewild had been conceived as a famous writer's retreat, but its owner never imagined that it was his children's nurse who would create an American classic there».
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself(en inglés), pp. 300-303, consultado el 19 de septiembre de 2019. - Correspondiente a las páginas 200-201 de H.Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Ed. J.F.Yellin, Cambridge 2000. Cursiva de la palabra "vendido" ("sold") en la autobiografía.