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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author: Harriet A. Jacobs
Harriet A. Jacobs was born a slave in North Carolina in 1813 and became a fugitive in the 1830's. She recorded her triumphant struggle for freedom in an autobiography that was published pseudonymously in 1861. — In this fully realized edition, editor Jean Fagan Yellin identifies the people and places that Jacobs wrote about, presents new materia...  more »
ISBN: 188676
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 294
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book was facsinating! It was passed along to me from a friend and I didn't think I'd get into it. I like reading memoirs and this was amazing. The editor pulls the auto-biography together with footnotes and references at the back of the book which puts a time line together of the early 1800's. There are photographs of the author and copies of original letters and correspondence from the time. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in historical memoirs, slavery, black history or just out for an interesting read.
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An amazing record of an African American female slave's life with five year's hidden in a small space in an attic.
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Riviting!
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A fantastic narrative of the life of a slave woman. We are all familiar with the injustices of slavery, but to hear the first hand account of a slave is gripping.


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