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 ...

Updated November 22, 2024, at 3:59 p.m. When History professor Tiya A. Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet A.

He had been reading the 2004 biography of Harriet Jacobs by Jean Fagan Yellin and was fascinated by the fact that both her brother and her son, Joseph, had gone to Australia — “physically ...

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

With so much happening nationally to silence or hide Black voices and historic figures, let’s not be party to that also here ...

John Swanson Jacobs was enslaved in Edenton North Carolina with his sister Harriet Jacobs. Both became abolitionists, wrote autobiographies.

On this Martin Luther King Day, we tell the story of an enslaved woman from Edenton who for seven years hid from her cruel master in a tiny crawl space beneath the eaves of a house. Harriet Jacobs ...

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 ...

As a professor who has studied Jacobs’ life and edited the 2023 edition of her autobiography, I find it especially appropriate that she, who wrote the first book-length memoir by a formerly ...

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 ...

The author explains that Harriet Jacobs became the first-ever published slave woman with the publication of her book, [Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl], nearly 150 years ago. Ms. Yellin ...

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 : ...