2005-06-25T19:59:14-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2eb/186972-m.jpgJean Fagan Yellin talked about her biography Harriet Jacobs: A Life, published by Basic Books ...

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 ...

Of all the women who endured slavery in this country, only one wrote a book-length account of her life. Her name was Harriet Jacobs, and her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, has ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — History books typically outline some of the same stories when speaking about Black history. Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are all well known but there ...

Harriet Jacobs is one of the best-known female abolitionists and authors who wrote about their experiences of enslavement in the South. But while searching for information about Jacobs' children, ...

It was not Harriet Jacob's nature to give up without a fight. Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years, then run away to the North. She ...