Jean Fagan Yellin's biography of slave Harriet Jacobs, who wrote her own autobiography in 1861, is winner of the $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. One of the nation's top literary awards, the ...

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.

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 : ...

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

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 ...