The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved Black woman. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program Koritha Mitchell's edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is no ordinary edition. Besides faithfully reproducing Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 narrative, […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Black politics and the creation of American citizenship. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Citizenship in nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over […]