Harriet Jacobs
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Meet abolitionist and writer Harriet Jacobs in this third vibrant middle grade biography in the Rise. Risk. Remember. Incredible Stories series spotlighting Black women who left their mark on history from acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Candace Buford.
Harriet Jacobs (1815–1897) was born into slavery and hid herself and her children for seven years after enduring abuse at the hands of her enslaver and before finally escaping to the free north. During and immediately after the American Civil War, she travelled to Union-occupied parts of the South and, with her daughter, founded two schools for fugitive and freed slaves. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under a pseudonym, is now considered an American classic.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a historian and professor of African American studies at Emory University. Her first book was A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City. Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of She Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman; coauthor of Susie King Taylor, Ida B. Wells, and Harriet Jacobs; and the co-executive producer of the HBO series The Gilded Age.
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Candace Buford
Candace Buford has been an avid reader since childhood—always looking for stories with strong and complex POCs. She graduated from Duke University with a degree in German Literature, which exposed her to the delightfully creepy side of storytelling by writers like Kafka and Brecht. Raised in Houston, she now lives in the PNW. She shares her life with a rocket scientist and a Plott Hound, who both ensure there is never a dull day. Kneel is her debut.
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