On Juneteenth (or any day), please join this tour of Harriet Jacobs in Civil War Alexandria that I put together for two special visitors!

A talk about two of my favorite women….and not on Zoom!

Two short articles summarize the roughly two decades that Harriet Jacobs lived in New York State—New York City and Rochester (part 1) and Cornwall (part 2).

After (or before) you’ve read my article in the Cambridge Day about Harriet Jacobs and Imogen Willis Eddy, here are a few bits that could not make it in the original article.

Consider the challenge of an escape from slavery via the watery depths.

Harriet Jacobs started a school in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1864. It wasn’t easy.

Harriet Jacobs hid in an enclosure 9 feet by 7 feet in Edenton, NC, which we visited last week.

Connecting Bostonians William Cooper Nell and Lydia Maria Child with Harriet Jacobs.

A presentation by Fran Bromberg about the creation, forgetting, and rededication of the cemetery on South Washington Street

An evening with Nikki O'Dell, who portrayed Harriet Jacobs in the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America.

A month or so ago, I got a peek at episode #1 at a roundtable with the producer.

Char McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.