Lecturer(s)
Renee Sentilles
Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History, CWRU
Location
Date
Monday May 13
Time
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM ET
Harriet Jacobs published her memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in 1860, hoping to raise enough royalties to bring home her daughter. The war broke out instead. For over a century, historians and the public alike believed the memoir to be a work of fiction—or written by famed author Lydia Maria Childe. The fine writing alongside the extraordinary story made it hard to believe this was nonfiction written by a formerly enslaved woman—but it was.
Read: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
Member of Lifelong Learning Cost
Members receive $5 discount
Nonmember Cost
$15