Guide to Reconstructing the bittersweet life of Phebe of Beverwyck Plantation, 2012
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Cite as: Reconstructing the bittersweet life of Phebe of Beverwyck Plantation, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Typescript biographical address concerning Phebe Ann Jacobs, an African American servant in the household of President William Allen of Bowdoin College and subsequently an emancipated resident of Brunswick, Maine. Address is missing page 20. File includes supplementary material about Jacobs, including timelines, place names, and a genealogy of the Wheelock and Allen families. Address delivered by the author at the First Presbyterian Church of Whippany (New Jersey) in observance of Black History Month in 2012.
- Bowdoin College -- History.
- Biographies. -- lcgft.
- Brunswick (Me.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Jacobs, Phebe Ann, 1785-1850.
- Women slaves -- New England -- Biography.
- African American women -- Maine -- Brunswick -- Biography.
- Christian biography -- Maine -- Brunswick.
Gift; Donald B. Kiddoo; 2012.
Part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives.