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Women's Anti-Slavery Activism Resources: May 2024

Session One: Written By Herself

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Documenting the American South

Versions of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

  • Edited by Yellin (great for teachers to read) 
  • Edited by Mitchell (great for the broad-based primary sources; great for students)
  • Free Doc South version (see link above)

Primary Sources related to Harriet Jacob’s Life, Digitized

Writing and Videos about Jacobs by Scholars

 NOTE: Resources prepared by LaKisha Simmons, Ph.D.
 

Session Two: Black Women and Girls in Slavery and Freedom

*See Session One information for some digitized primary sources on Jacob's life.

Monticello, Enslaved Labor

WPA interview with Mary Reynolds

Elizabeth Keckley sources

Reading as Resistance 

  • Shana Keller, Bread for Words; Picture book, historical fiction, uses primary sources to build story 

Last Seen/ Information Wanted 

Ellen and William Craft 

Session Three: Anti-Slavery Activism 

*See Session One Info for some digitized primary sources on Jacob’s life.

John S. Jacobs UNC DocSouth

Captain Jonathan Walker 

Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Society

Clements Library Collections

  • Julia Wilbur letters, about refugee camp from 1863 and 1864

Refugee/Contraband Camps