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    Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America...
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    Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made...
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    Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. First published in 1859, it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis...
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    Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...
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  • 1880) Richard Frethorne John A. Treutlen Peter Williamson (memoirist) Harriet E. Wilson Norwalk: v. 1 and supplement, Volume 1 Alkalimat, Abdul (2004). The...
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    editor Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), journalist and patron of James Joyce Harriet Wheeler (born 1963), English rock singer Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900)...
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    Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/stoʊ/; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family...
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  • 2016. BBC News March 1, 2009 accessed September 13, 2018 Texas Research Ramblers Volume XXIX Number 1 Spring 2014 accessed September 13, 2018 v t e...
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    1853 NY) Harriet Tubman Wallace Turnage Bethany Veney Booker T. Washington Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory) Harriet E. Wilson Zamba Zembola...
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    1853 NY) Harriet Tubman Wallace Turnage Bethany Veney Booker T. Washington Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory) Harriet E. Wilson Zamba Zembola...
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    Railroad for escaped slaves.[citation needed] It was also the home of Harriet E. Wilson, who published the semi-autobiographical novel Our Nig: Or, Sketches...
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    Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking...
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  • Samuel Bass Michael Kenneth Williams as Robert Alfre Woodard as Mistress Harriet Shaw Chris Chalk as Clemens Ray Taran Killam as Abram Hamilton Bill Camp...
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    and submissiveness. Venetria K. Patton explains that Jacobs and Harriet E. Wilson, who wrote Our Nig, reconfigured the genres of slave narrative and...
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  • contemporary perspective. It was additionally simulcast on Lifetime and A&E. Will Packer, Marc Toberoff, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal also serve...
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    heritage likely also included Native American. Douglass said his mother Harriet Bailey gave him his name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey and, after...
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    Movement. E-artnow. p. PT117. ISBN 978-80-272-2551-4. New Orleans Notarial Archives Northup & Wilson 1853, pp. 79, 85–86. Northup & Wilson 1853, pp. 98–99...
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    narratives of Henry "Box" Brown, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the fictionalized narrative of Eliza who escapes slavery through...
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    Sharp Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry David Thoreau Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Nat Turner David Walker William Wilberforce...
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    conducted as a MacArthur Fellow, Gates discovered Our Nig, written by Harriet E. Wilson in 1859 and thought to be the first novel written in the United States...
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    Roustam Raza's memoirs online (in Russian) Souvenirs de Roustam, mamelouck de Napoléon Ier Introduction et notes de Paul Cottin (in French) v t e v t e...
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    restrictions on voter registration. Black activists in the North, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, disagreed with him and opted to set up the NAACP to work for...
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    Bondage and My Freedom, publicly available e-text at the University of Virginia. My Bondage and My Freedom, publicly available at Project Gutenberg. v t e...
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  • slaves, as well as white actors portraying historical characters (including Harriet Beecher Stowe). Scenes were also shot in the U.S. states of Mississippi...
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    Auburn, New York eight years before the American Civil War and soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)...
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    1853 NY) Harriet Tubman Wallace Turnage Bethany Veney Booker T. Washington Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory) Harriet E. Wilson Zamba Zembola...
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    1853 NY) Harriet Tubman Wallace Turnage Bethany Veney Booker T. Washington Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory) Harriet E. Wilson Zamba Zembola...
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  • Whitehead mentions two famous escaped enslaved people: "Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs". While in Jacobs's native North Carolina, Cora has to hide in an...
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    captured and brought south to be sold into slavery. The historian Carol Wilson documented 300 such cases in Freedom at Risk (1994) and estimated there...
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    1853 NY) Harriet Tubman Wallace Turnage Bethany Veney Booker T. Washington Wallace Willis (19th century Indian Territory) Harriet E. Wilson Zamba Zembola...
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