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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written By Herself
Harriet Jacobs
1861
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First Person
I Was Determined to Remember: Harriet Jacobs and the Corporeality of Slavery’s Legacies
How a folklorist encourages people to experience the past and present of a place.
by
Koritha Mitchell
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 30, 2023
Exhibit
Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs
A virtual tour of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
by
Elizabeth Della Zazzera
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
April 15, 2019
News
Why A 19th Century American Slave Memoir Is Becoming A Bestseller In Japan's Bookstores
Why "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861), became a hit in Japan when it was published there in 2013.
by
Jake Adelstein
via
Forbes
on
November 15, 2017
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Living in Words
A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.
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Brenda Wineapple
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New York Review of Books
on
October 13, 2022
A Dark Cloud over Enjoyment
Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.
by
Erin Austin Dwyer
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 7, 2021
'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1
New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"
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Olivia B. Waxman
via
Time
on
December 27, 2019
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Why Laura Bush Speaking Up on Separating Families Matters So Much
The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.
by
Jim Downs
via
Made by History
on
June 20, 2018
Demanding to Be Heard
African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.
by
Stephanie Richmond
via
Nursing Clio
on
June 12, 2018