Celebrating Black History Month!

Collective Black Fugitive Practices in

Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life

of a Slave Girl"

_{Eve Eure}

_{Assistant Professor}

_{Department of English}

_{School of Arts and Humanities}

_{Lehman College, CUNY}

_{Thursday, February 4, 2:00pm}

_{Eve Eure will discuss Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative, the first book-length fugitive slave}

_{narrative to be published by a Black woman in the United States. Focusing on the means}

_{by which Jacobs navigates the legal and social enclosures of slavery, Professor Eure}

_{explores how Jacobs’s text opens possibilities for rethinking notions of kinship,}

_{kinlessness, and Black fugitivity.}

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