Aboard the Underground Railroad, a National Register Travel Itinerary

Edenton-Chowan County Tourism Development Authority

Harriet Jacobs, Selected Writings and Correspondence

Historic Edenton

National Geographic Online Presents the Underground Railroad

National Park Service Network to Freedom

National Public Radio Interview with Jean Fagan Yellin

North Carolina and the Civil War

North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial; North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

North Carolina Civil War Tourism Council

North Carolina Civil War Trails

North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

Pace University, The Harriet Jacobs Papers

Timeline of Events

UNC-Chapel Hill, Learn NC Curriculum

UNC-TV’s “Black Issues Forum” Episode 2416, “Slave Narrative: Harriet Ann Jacobs”

WHRO-TV (PBS) Africans in America

 Images that appear on this Web site are attributed as follows:

Homepage
Harriet Jacobs portrait courtesy of Harriet Jacobs, A Life, by Jean Fagan Yellin (New York: Basic Books, 2004); Auburn Plantation courtesy of Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs, by Mary E. Lyons (New York: Simon Pulse, 1996); handwritten note by Harriet Jacobs courtesy of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, by Harriet Jacobs (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

About Harriet Jacobs
Masthead images: Doll made by Harriet Jacobs for the Willis children, cover of the pirated edition of Incidents and Harriet Jacobs portrait courtesy of Harriet Jacobs, A Life, by Jean Fagan Yellin (New York: Basic Books, 2004); Auburn Plantation courtesy of Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs, by Mary E. Lyons (New York: Simon Pulse, 1996);

Biography
Norcom will, Dr. Norcom portrait, $100 Reward newspaper article courtesy of Harriet Jacobs, A Life, by Jean Fagan Yellin (New York: Basic Books, 2004); garrett cutaway illustration courtesy of Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs, by Mary E. Lyons (New York: Simon Pulse, 1996).

Books
Cover of the pirated edition of Incidents and Harriet Jacobs portrait courtesy of Harriet Jacobs, A Life, by Jean Fagan Yellin (New York: Basic Books, 2004)

Timeline
Stuart portrait of James Madison courtesy of hoocher.com; Jane Austen portrait courtesy of bookology.wordpress.com; James Norcom house courtesy of Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs, by Mary E. Lyons (New York: Simon Pulse, 1996); HMS Beagle courtesy of freelander09.wordpress.com; portraits of Harriet’s children Louis and Joseph courtesy of Harriet Jacobs, A Life, by Jean Fagan Yellin (New York: Basic Books, 2004); covers of A Christmas Carol and Uncle Tom’s Cabin courtesy of amazon.com; Abraham Lincoln portrait courtesy of 1776web.com; Emancipation Proclamation courtesy of showcase.netins.net

History
Joseph Hewes portrait courtesy of nps.gov; steamboats courtesy of tnhistoryforkids.org; shad fishing courtesy of sonofthesouth.net; Dismal Swamp refuge illustration courtesy of eaglespeak.us/2009/04/sunday-ship-history-dismal-swamp-canal.html; cotillion courtesy of vintagedancers.org; Walker’s Appeal courtesy of docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/title.html; Turner’s Revolt image courtesy of americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/resistance.htm