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...women who endured slavery in this country, only one wrote a book-length account of her life. Her name was Harriet Jacobs, and her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, has one of the more satisfyingly tart closing lines in American literature. Instead of ending with marriage, she writes, "Reader, my story ends with freedom." But Jacobs' story--and the lives of other women who had been enslaved--did not end with freedom. Nor did their troubles...
...Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary...
...Harriet Tubman was Jacobs' temperamental opposite, but in many ways their lives ran on parallel tracks. In Catherine Clinton's Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (Little, Brown; 272 pages), the first major biography of Tubman in more than 100 years, we see the heroine of children's books and biopics with a new clarity and richness of detail. Born a slave in Maryland, Tubman made a break for freedom in 1849, leaving her husband behind. "There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death," she later said. "If I could not have...
Retirees living and learning at Lasell Village in Newton, Mass. he and his wife Harriet, 84, moved in shortly after the $40 million retirement community opened in may 2000 on the campus of Lasell College. After living in an 11-room mansion in nearby Brookline for 53 years, the couple was lured to Lasell by the desire to rejoin a scholarly community--reasonably priced health-care insurance was an added incentive. The Kaplans put down a $400,000 entrance fee (90% of which will be refunded when they leave) and pay a $4,000 monthly residence...
...million in the rest of its run, a sure sign it disappointed its audience. So when the trilogy's finale, The Matrix Revolutions, arrived last week, seeing it was not so much a craving as a duty. Hence must see. As in must eat soybeans. Must visit Aunt Harriet. Must complete my set of Matrix in-theater viewing experiences...