Join Student Engagement as we honor Black History Month by highlighting former slaves who went on to impact America.

“There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.” Harriett Jacobs

Harriett Jacobs escaped an abusive enslavement and hid in the North for seven years. After becoming a nanny for a well-known writer, Jacobs was able to live a free life. Immediately after the Civil War, Jacobs and her daughter organized and founded two schools for fugitive and freed slaves.

You can learn more about Harriett Jacobs and other great Americans by visiting nationalhumanitiescenter.org