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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself with A True Tale of Slavery by John S Jacobs - The John Harvard Library
Author: Harriet A. Jacobs

This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet Jacobs’s autobiograp...  more »hy. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780674035836
ISBN-10: 0674035836
Publication Date: 11/15/2009
Pages: 496
Edition: Enlarged
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Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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