World History EncyclopediaApr 10, 2025
Harriet Jacobs (l. c. 1813-1897) was a former slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), her autobiography, describing her life as a slave in North Carolina, her flight to freedom in the North, and her experiences there. #History #HarrietJacobs #Abolitionism #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-23889-en/
Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs (l. c. 1813-1897) was a former slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), her autobiography, describing her life as a slave in North Carolina, her...

World History Encyclopedia
World History EncyclopediaApr 8, 2025
Fear of Insurrection comes from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs (l. 1813-1897) describing the reaction of the White community of Edenton, North Carolina, to news of Nat Turner's Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in August of 1831. #History #Abolitionism #HarrietJacobs #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2693-en/
Fear of Insurrection

Fear of Insurrection comes from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs (l. 1813-1897) describing the reaction of the White community of Edenton, North Carolina, to news of Nat...

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))Feb 12, 2025

Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.

#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television

#LitStudies
#Books

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Feb 12, 2025

Some of my must-read books for #BlackHistoryMonth.

#PercivalEverett: JAMES and The Trees
#JasonMott: Hell of a Book
#ToniMorrison: Beloved
#MauriceCarlosRuffin: We Cast a Shadow
#SolomonNorthup: 12 Years A Slave
#HarrietJacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#RalphEllison: Invisible Man
#DanzySenna: Colored Television

#LitStudies
#Books

World History EncyclopediaJan 22, 2025
"The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery" presents readers with a largely unknown narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs, a formerly enslaved man, a biography of him, and other documents about his life. #History #19thCentury #HarrietJacobs #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-507-en/
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots by John Swanson Swanson Jacobs & Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (Book Review)

Discovering forgotten or overlooked sources is always exciting. Jonathan D. S. Schroeder recently rediscovered John Swanson Jacobs’s narrative The United States...

Stafford GregoireMay 24, 2024
This is exciting
#HarrietJacobs brother wrote another-angrier- #slavenarrative more ǝʞıן #davidwalkersappeal
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/arts/john-jacobs-slavery-discovery.html
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

The New York Times