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Words are Freedom: Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written and published in 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, this autobiographical account by Jacobs, a former slave, details her master’s cruelty and physical abuse and recounts her harrowing experience as a fugitive attempting to secure her children’s freedom. Pick up a copy of the book at Central Library. Hosted by Sterling Bland, Jr, Chair of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University and author of Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation.











When: Sun., Feb. 24, 2013 at 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Where: Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza
718-230-2100
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Written and published in 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, this autobiographical account by Jacobs, a former slave, details her master’s cruelty and physical abuse and recounts her harrowing experience as a fugitive attempting to secure her children’s freedom. Pick up a copy of the book at Central Library. Hosted by Sterling Bland, Jr, Chair of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University and author of Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation.

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