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The Life and Times of Harriet Jacobs: A One-Woman Show Presented by Lynn Blackston In-Person
Join performance poet Lynn Blackston in a one woman show celebrating the life of author and abolitionist, Harriet Jacobs. Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina in 1818. Harriet escaped from her master’s house to her grandmother’s house where she spent 7 years living in a crawl space above a storeroom in her grandmother’s home. In 1842, Harriet finally escaped to the north where she became active in the anti-slavery movement and wrote the book Incidents in the life of a slave girl, which was published in Boston 1860 under the pen name of Linda Brent.
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