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‘Incidents’ author Harriet Jacobs crossed paths with Imogen Eddy, an early Harvard astronomer

Harriet Jacobs, author of โ€œIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,โ€ lived in Cambridge in the 1870s. As historians have documented (including during a recent History Cambridge History Cafรฉ presentation), the boardinghouses she ran provided a home for Harvard students and faculty, as well as a sense of community for her daughter Louisa and […]

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