Two short articles summarize the roughly two decades that Harriet Jacobs lived in New York State—New York City and Rochester (part 1) and Cornwall (part 2).

For about five years, in the last 1850s and early 1860s, Pfaff’s was the place to be. Who were the women there?

Julia Wilbur does New York City--July 1863, right before the Draft Riots. I follow her footsteps in 2018.

Julia Wilbur does New York City--early July 1863. I follow her footsteps--late June 2017.