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.

Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in Edenton ... In 2016, Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law an act proclaiming the second Sunday of June to forever be Race Amity Day in the commonwealth and ...

The letter was signed, “No longer yours ... Most scholars had assumed that Yellin, who spent three decades researching Harriet Jacobs, had tracked down most of what could be found about the ...

John Swanson Jacobs' long-lost autobiography is a look inside life as a slave : NPR's Book of the Day Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their ...

Resting in the windowsills of the Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton, North Carolina, are the silhouettes of women appearing behind sheer floral curtains; their profiles overlook the large ...

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery but refused to let the institution define her. Ferociously independent, Jacobs stood ...

Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet A. Jacobs’ description of her experiences of surviving ...

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.