We've gained several new businesses, from anticipated restaurant openings to retail shops, each week since the start of this ...

Sarah Elisabeth Goode made history in 1885 when she became one of the first Black American women to earn a patent. She ...

That constant renewal of nature is a source of hope for two-time Grammy winner Corinne Bailey Rae, who will play the College of Charleston’s Cistern Yard on May 23 as part of the Spoleto Festival ...

written by Harriet Jacobs in 1861. Jacobs was the first Black female slave to author her own narrative. It depicted her resistance to her master’s sexual exploitation and her ultimate achievement of ...

Titled “Joy and Pain,” the painting is by visual artist Mario Moore ’13 M.F.A. The child is his nephew ... wooden crate from Virginia to abolitionists in Pennsylvania; and Harriet Jacobs, who hid for ...

Broad St., Edenton, NC 27932 Cost: $2.50 per adult, $1.50 per child. Edenton native Harriet Jacobs escaped slavery and wrote “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” one of the first ...

The author’s journey from enslaved child to free man and renowned orator ... a Black woman who had been enslaved was published: Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

“Every child rises early on Christmas morning to ... This text is based on the original 1861 publication from our family collection. Harriet Jacobs, born into slavery in North Carolina, is ...

In the 1861 narrative of her life in slavery, abolitionist Harriet Jacobs described a similar masquerade in North Carolina. “Every child rises early on Christmas morning to see the Johnkannaus,” she ...

Ruth Harriet Miller was born in ... For the next decade or so, Dr. Jacobs helped out in her husband’s store and focused on her children. When her children were in school, she began taking ...