Standard-Times
NEW BEDFORD Join well-known local historian and author, Peggi Medeiros, for a virtual book talk on Harriet Jacobs in New Bedford. The virtual talk will take place at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18, hosted by Thee Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum (RJD) in New Bedford as one of its last virtual talks of the season.
Medeiros will trace the intertwined lives of the Jacobs, Grinnell, and Willis families and their interactions with the City of New Bedford. In 1861, Harriet Ann Jacobs published a masterpiece, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the first and only narrative to give voice to a woman who escaped slavery. Cornelia Grinnell Willis not only purchased Harriet’s freedom, but she also developed a bond with Harriet and her daughter, Louisa, that lasted a lifetime.