Cuesta Library Virtual Book Club: Words of Change: September 2020: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

• "1619 at Jamestown: Racialized slavery begins" (2 min video)
• Overview of the New York Times' "1619 Project" (multimedia)

• “Slavery and the Civil War: Slave life on Southern plantations.” BBC 

• “Thomas Jefferson & Slavery: The Business of Slavery at Monticello.” Monticello

• "Transatlantic Slave Trade." Unesco/Colonial Williamsburg (multimedia)

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• African American Heritage Trail: Harriet, John & Louisa Jacobs (Their burial place)
• Beyond the Beach: The African-American History in Coastal Carolina (About Harriet Jacob's birthplace)
• "Harriet Jacobs and Dr. Jean Fagan Yellin." Interview with Biographer Dr. Yellin (8 min video)
• "Harriet Jacobs: Author, Survivor, Abolitionist." N.C. Department of Natural Resources (1.5 min video)
• "Harriet Jacobs: Slavery and the Making of America." From PBS film, narr. by Morgan Freeman (13 min video)
• “Unlikely Friends: Julia Wilbur and Harriet Jacobs in Civil War Alexandria, Virginia.” Natl Women's History Museum
• “Incidents in the Life of Harriet Jacobs."  Lapham’s Quarterly (interactive map)
• "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." American Place Theatre, Dramatization (6 min video)

• Slave Narratives from the Library of Congress Born in Slavery collection

• “A Survey of the Material Culture of Enslaved Black Women through Runaway Slave Advertisements” by Hope Wright

Photo credit: Former slave Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon, Age 79,
Library of Congress

• Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jane Fagan Yellin

• Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary Lyons (YA novel)

• Teacher’s Guide: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl