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One of our chief reasons to visit Edenton, NC was to reflect on the experience of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a book I have taught many times. Providence churchyard is the resting place of her Mother Delilah and of her Grandmother Molly Horniblow, and of African American veterans of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Providence Church was established in the 18th century by members of Edenton's Free Black and enslaved African American community. The Church itself was destroyed in 1831, in the immediate backlash to Nat Turner's Rebellion, as Blacks were forced to attend worship only under the watchful eyes of Whites. Only the cemetery remains.