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Harriet Jacobs’ Underground Railroad
Documentary editor Mary Maillard presented her paper, “Conductors and Passengers: Harriet Jacobs’ Underground Railroad,” at the North Carolina Women in the Undergound Railroad Symposium, Museum of the Albemarle, Elizabeth City, NC, on October 5, 2017.
“Let this miserable war be ended,” May 2, 1862
Oxford [North Carolina] May 2nd 1862 My dearest husband I have felt so satisfied this week with the general management of things in this “Confederacy” that I have not been disposed to do anything but quarrel – very much … Continue reading
Camp near Richmond, August 5, 1861
Camp near Richmond, Aug: 5th 1861 Dearest Eliza I am officer of the day today and in expectation rather than having a certainty of leaving tomorrow for Manassas. I hoped to find time to write you quite a long letter … Continue reading
Young Love in the Old South
In the early spring of 1841, thirteen-year-old Eliza Fisk Harwood of Williamsburg, Virginia, wrote a letter to her friend Tristrim “Trim” Skinner so crammed with news that it was practically unreadable. What she considered to be her most important news, … Continue reading