Antislavery Reading Room Operated by Harriet Jacobs
1849
Circa 1849, the abolitionist activist Harriet Jacobs operated an antislavery reading room in the Talman Block, the same building in Rochester where Frederick Douglass had his newspaper office.
1849
Circa 1849, the abolitionist activist Harriet Jacobs operated an antislavery reading room in the Talman Block, the same building in Rochester where Frederick Douglass had his newspaper office.
