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Playwright Lydia R. Diamond dramatizes the true story of a woman so determined to win her freedom from slavery that she hid for seven years in an attic crawl space. Kami Rushell Smith is excellent in the title role. -- Don Aucoin, Globe Staff
Lydia R. Diamond's new play, "Harriet Jacobs," tells the true story of a slave woman's life during the years leading up to the Civil War. Jacobs escaped her oppressive master and hid in a crawl space for seven years while her children were raised by her grandmother. Diamond used Jacobs's autobiography, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," as source material for her script. Milva DiDomizio, Globe Staff
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In “Harriet Jacobs,’’ Lydia R. Diamond’s searing dramatization of America’s legacy of slavery, Diamond mobilizes her gifted pen and her powers of empathy to tell the story of one extraordinary woman. (Full review)