Image: Jacobs Free School, founded by Harriet Jacobs - Original

Description: Photograph of the Jacobs Free School, which offered tuition-free schooling to African-American children. Founded by Harriet Jacobs, the school was unique in being both free to use, and run by African-Americans (the head of the school was Harriet's daughter, en:Louisa Matilda Jacobs, assisted by another young African-American woman) instead of being led by white abolitionists. Harriet Jacobs is indicated with a small X beneath her. This photograph was distributed to Northern abolitionists who had helped fund the school.
Title: Jacobs Free School, founded by Harriet Jacobs - Original
Credit: Robert Langmuir African American Photograph Collection, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University by way of The Journal of the Civil War Era
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