by Colony Little, ArtNews.
The 1767 Chowan County Courthouse is the site of an installation, Memorable Proof, by artist Letitia Huckaby that is part of the “Harriet Jacobs Project,” an ongoing initiative directed by Michelle Lanier and curated by Johnica Rivers.
Collectively, their work is dedicated to the memory of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a trenchant autobiographical account of her enslavement in Edenton and escape to freedom. Memorable Proof is part of a larger activation of Jacobs’s hometown, organized by Lanier and Rivers who have created a cultural experience through a series of artistic interventions.