Jean Fagan Yellin talked about her biography [Harriet Jacobs: A Life], published by Basic Books. It profiled the life of slave woman Harriet Jacobs. The author explains that Harriet Jacobs became ...

Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it’s a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery.

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What does it mean to claim a commitment to racial equity if the city allows the physical legacy of one of America’s most ...

Object Details Author Garfield, Deborah M Zafar, Rafia Subject Jacobs, Harriet A (Harriet Ann) 1813-1897 Incidents in the life of a slave girl Contents Introduction : over-exposed, under-exposed : ...

The Cambridge Historical Commission voted unanimously for a landmarking study of a home in Harvard Square that once belonged ...

Harriet would later move to Rochester, New York, to be close to her brother, also a fugitive slave. There she became involved with the abolitionists associated with Frederick Douglass' paper, the ...

The two streets will honor abolitionist and women's rights advocate Harriet Jacobs and Gertrude Wright Morgan, who was involved in the establishment of the NAACP.

Picture Aretha Franklin, deep in a gospel-soul groove, wailing about "Dr. Feelgood." Then ponder, say, Debby Boone singing "You Light Up My Life." With her biography of Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan ...

Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their experiences of enslavement in the South. But while searching for information about Jacobs' children ...

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North ...