The Harriet Jacobs Papers Project will produce a two-volume documentary
edition of papers by and about the 19th-century African-American
author, abolitionist, and reformer Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), to
be published by the University of North Carolina Press. This will
be the first scholarly edition of papers of an African-American
woman held in slavery. Best known as the fugitive slave author of
the landmark American slave narrative Incidents in the Life of
a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Boston 1861, London 1862),
Jacobs and her family were also actively involved in reform movements
before, during, and after the Civil War. The Harriet Jacobs Papers
Project is designed as a lasting contribution to the ongoing study
of the ways in which racism and slavery, and the struggle against
racism and slavery, have shaped American culture and continue to
shape American life.
The Harriet Jacobs Papers Project is funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Dyson College of Pace University, the North Carolina State Archives, the Center for the Study of the American South, the University of North Carolina Press, and Elayne P. Berstein. The project has been designated a National Endowment for the Humanities "We the People" project and is being supported in part by funds the agency has set aside for this special initiative.
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