Harriet Jacobs Walking Tour
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On Juneteenth (or any day), please join this tour of Harriet Jacobs in Civil War Alexandria that I put together for two special visitors!
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Harriet Jacobs in New York State
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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).
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs and Imogen Willis Eddy: Surprise Discoveries All Around
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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.
Read MoreNortheast North Carolina Underground Railroad: Sea, Swamp, Solidarity
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Consider the challenge of an escape from slavery via the watery depths.
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs, Teacher
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Harriet Jacobs started a school in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1864. It wasn’t easy.
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs in Edenton, North Carolina
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Harriet Jacobs hid in an enclosure 9 feet by 7 feet in Edenton, NC, which we visited last week.
Read MoreWilliam Cooper Nell and Lydia Maria Child: Two Bostonians Who Helped Harriet Jacobs
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Connecting Bostonians William Cooper Nell and Lydia Maria Child with Harriet Jacobs.
Read MoreContraband and Freedmen's Cemetery Memorial
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A presentation by Fran Bromberg about the creation, forgetting, and rededication of the cemetery on South Washington Street
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs Alive (sort of)
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An evening with Nikki O'Dell, who portrayed Harriet Jacobs in the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America.
Read MoreMercy Street Is Returning!
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A month or so ago, I got a peek at episode #1 at a roundtable with the producer.
Read MoreFinding Descendants from Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery
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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.
Read MoreJulia Wilbur's Alexandria: The "Slave Pen"
/On the first morning after the Union occupation of Alexandria, May 22, 1861, Michigan troops came upon what had been a flourishing slave-trading establishment on Duke Street, less than a mile from the Potomac River.
Read MoreSpeak, Sister!
/Music and storytelling were a huge part of the 19th century...
Read MoreHarriet Jacobs and Julia Wilbur: Two Other "Heroines"
/With my own research in mind, I can't resist proposing Julia Wilbur and Harriet Jacobs as two other real-life heroines of Mercy Street.
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