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 ...
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Harriet Jacobs’s life and legacy embody dignity, security, and justice. Expanding access to safe, affordable homes in Cambridge carries that same moral weight today. E. Denise Simmons is the mayor of ...
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A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement
From the ages of 12 to about 22, Harriet Jacobs lived under the watch of her enslaver, a wealthy physician named James Norcom Sr. During that decade, as Jacobs grew from a child to a young woman, ...
In her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs wrote these words about her years of slavery: "Only by experience can any one realize how deep, and dark, and foul is that pit of ...
What does it mean to claim a commitment to racial equity if the city allows the physical legacy of one of America’s most important freedom fighters to be sacrificed on the altar of profit? Orlando ...
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