Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' is the front-runner in the Tony Award race for best play. But in one of the strongest playwriting ...

Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

One of the other most influential slave narratives that changed the way Americans viewed slavery was Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by Harriet Jacobs in 1861 ... s Beloved (1987), ...

Yet, this suppression only highlighted the revolutionary potential of the written ... published: Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. This groundbreaking work exposed the ...

Many critics have written and analyzed this phenomenon ... They’ve simply won by force. These works—of Sancho, Cugoano, Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs—are often read merely as an appeal ...

Despots stands out, he said, “for all the reasons that Jon outlines in his introduction to the work—the absence ... he had been reading about Harriet Jacobs, author of the 1861 autobiography Incidents ...

“If they can get some fundraising done, then we can make a Harriet Jacobs facility nice and beautiful,” Jiang said. “I definitely want to work with them to make that happen.” For his ...

Several factors were at work. During the American and French ... Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs all reflected on the condition of social death in their own 19th-century language.

Harriet Jacobs ... slave narratives written by a woman. It's called "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". I'm with Johnica Rivers, a curator-at-large with the Harriet Jacobs Project.

There’s no gentle preamble to Harriet Kemsley’s breathlessly entertaining account of her challenging year, as she bluntly opens with the news that she’s divorced. Anyone hoping for salacious ...