Professor Anthony Parent Highlights Harriet Jacobs’s Story of Survival Through Historic Staircase

A new article in The Conversation by Susanna Ashton (Clemson) and Mollie Barnes (USC Beaufort) explores a staircase from Edenton tied to Harriet Jacobs’s enslavement, on display at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston Salem, NC. Retired Wake Forest University historian Anthony Parent has been central in bringing this staircase to public attention, ensuring Jacobs’s story is remembered through his scholarship and community outreach.