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 ...

Titled A Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs, the pair brought together an interdisciplinary group of women who have studied, written about, or invoked the memory of Jacobs within their academic, artistic ...

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 ...

On February 11, 1813, Harriet Jacobs, fugitive slave, writer and abolitionist, was born in Edenton. Harriet spent her childhood unaware of her station in life.

Kyra I. March ’22, who took Miles’ class on Jacobs as an undergrad, was inspired to join the committee by developing an understanding of Jacobs’ life and the role 17 Story St. played in it.

Harriet Jacobs, John Jacobs’s sister, shown in 1894. Her 1861 autobiography, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” is now recognized as a cornerstone of 19th-century American literature ...

Sydney Sherow Celestin performs in 'Harriet Jacobs,' the regional premiere of a play by Lydia R. Diamond presented by African American Repertory Theater at KD Studio Theater on June 9, 2016 in Dallas.

Introduction : over-exposed, under-exposed : Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Rafia Zafar -- "I disguised my hand" : writing versions of the truth in Harriet Jacobs's ...

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 ...