Libcom: Incidents in the life of a slave girl - Harriet Jacobs
There is nothing as delicious as a biography filled with lively characters, layered with detailed descriptions and topped off by dense footnotes. "Harriet Jacobs: A Life," by Jean Fagan Yellin, is one ...
Picture Aretha Franklin, deep in a gospel-soul groove, wailing about "Dr. Feelgood." Then ponder, say, Debby Boone singing "You Light Up My Life." With her biography of Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan ...
SFGate: Her tale was brutal, sexual. No one believed a slave woman could be so literate. But now Harriet Jacobs has reclaimed her name.
Clarification: A Datebook article June 23 on Harriet Jacobs stated that Thomas Jefferson fathered a child by his slave, Sally Hemings. The matter has been controversial for 200 years. In 1998, a DNA ...
Her tale was brutal, sexual. No one believed a slave woman could be so literate. But now Harriet Jacobs has reclaimed her name.
The Harvard Crimson: The Fight to Preserve Harriet Jacobs’ Legacy in Cambridge
When History professor Tiya A. Miles ’92 first read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” as an undergraduate at Harvard, she found herself awed by Harriet A. Jacobs’ description of her experiences ...
Harriet is a 2019 American biographical film directed by Kasi Lemmons, who also wrote the screenplay with Gregory Allen Howard. It stars Cynthia Erivo as abolitionist Harriet Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe in supporting roles.
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes.