by Alice Combs | Jul 15, 2020 | Based on Skin Color, Triumph over Discrimination
Born a slave in North Carolina, Harriet Jacobs’s happy childhood ignorance of slavery ended when she was six years old. That was when her mother died, and Harriet became the companion and helpmate of her mother’s child-mistress. Over the following six years, Harriet...
by Alice Combs | Jul 1, 2020 | Based on Skin Color, Triumph over Discrimination
Born a slave, Sojourner Truth towered over six feet. She became famous as a charismatic public speaker and songstress before, during, and after the American Civil War. Sojourner (then called Isabel) was enslaved in New York state, which mandated emancipation beginning...
