Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Written by Herself
$23.95
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2019
Summary
One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs’s classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseudonymously in 1861, tells firsthand of the horrors inflicted on slaves. In writing this extraordinary memoir, which culminates in the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space in her grandmother’s attic, Jacobs skillfully use…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140437959 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140437959 |
| Author: | Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irving Painter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
About The Author
Harriet Jacobs
Nell Irvin Painter is the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol and Standing at Armageddon: the United States, 1877-1919, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson and Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction. She is Edwards Professor of History at Princeton University, where she currently heads the program in African-American Studies.
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