History Café: Harriet Jacobs and the World of Abolitionist Cambridge Women (May 24, 2021)

“In our first History Café program of 2021, Dr. Tiya Miles discusses her work on the life of writer and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs. For the Spring 2021 semester at Harvard University, where she is Professor of History, Dr. Miles created a new course, “Abolitionist Women and Their Worlds.” Dr. Miles is joined in this program by her graduate teaching fellow, Alyssa Napier, and by two of her undergraduate students, Kyra March and Lilah Penner Brown, to talk about their experiences researching Jacobs’ time in Cambridge and her involvement with the movements for abolition and civil rights for Black Americans.”