RZ-20879-02 | Research Programs: Collaborative Research | Pace University College of White Plains | The Harriet Jacobs Papers | 9/1/2002 - 8/31/2005 | $125,000.00 | Jean | Fagan | Yellin | | | | Pace University College of White Plains | White Plains | NY | 10603-3710 | USA | 2002 | American Studies | Collaborative Research | Research Programs | 110000 | 15000 | 110000 | 15000 | To support work on an edition of the papers of Harriet Jacobs, 19th-century American slave, author, abolitionist, and reform activist.
A two-volume documentary edition, to be published by the university of North Carolina Press, of approximately 600 letters, manuscripts, legal papers, and rare published documents by and about Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), the American author, abolitionist, and reform activist best known for the landmark slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself." |