Guide to Reconstructing the bittersweet life of Phebe of Beverwyck Plantation, 2012

Summary Information

Title:

Reconstructing the bittersweet life of Phebe of Beverwyck Plantation

Creator:

Kiddoo, Donald B

ID:

M194.2.K336

Date:

2012

Extent:

1 folder

Repository:

George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Abstract:

Using These Materials

Conditions Governing Access:

No restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use:

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Preferred Citation:

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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Scope and Contents

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.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s):

Bowdoin College -- History.

Genre(s):

Biographies. -- lcgft.

Geographic Name(s):

Brunswick (Me.) -- History -- 19th century.

Personal Name(s):

Jacobs, Phebe Ann, 1785-1850.

Subject(s):

Women slaves -- New England -- Biography.
African American women -- Maine -- Brunswick -- Biography.
Christian biography -- Maine -- Brunswick.

Note

Gift; Donald B. Kiddoo; 2012.

Part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives.