“The Legacies of Slavery and Sisterhood: The Life and Work of Harriet Jacobs” – the first American slave woman to write an autobiography. Special reading/guest appearance by Actress Ruby Dee. October 5, 2006

What: “The Legacies of Slavery and Sisterhood: The Life and Work of Harriet Jacobs” – the first American slave woman to write an autobiography. Special reading/guest appearance by Actress Ruby Dee.

Where: Pace University - Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts (across from City Hall), New York, NY (enter at 3 Spruce Street, between Park and Gold Streets)

Conference Schedule: Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7, from 8 AM – 6 PM

URL: www.pace.edu/dyson/harrietjacobsconf

Summary: Conference participants represent a “Who’s Who” of literary scholars and historians, many of whom are the nation’s foremost authorities on slavery. But slavery isn’t a thing of the Civil War past. To remind us of that fact, Mende Nazar, author of “Slave,” will recount her dramatic break for freedom after being seized from her Sudan home in 1993 by Arab raiders and sold into slavery at age 12.

Cost:
$75 general admission, both days
$15 to attend only the Ruby Dee reading and reception on October 7
$25 Non-Pace students and Pace alumni


Subways: 2, 3 to Park Place/Broadway or Broadway/Nassau/Fulton; A, C, J, M, Z to Broadway/Nassau/Fulton; 4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall, J, N or R to City Hall/Broadway.

Conference Contact (General Public): Christopher Malone, Associate Professor - Political Science, Pace University, 212-346-1146, cmalone@pace.edu

Official Website: http://www.pace.edu/dyson/harrietjacobsconf