Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$27.74
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2021
Summary
The most famous autobiography written by a nineteenth-century African American woman, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a triumph of American literature and the unflinching narrative that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of African-American women.
“A crowning achievement … Jacobs remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form—a narrative at once black and female.” —Henry Louis Gate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593230367 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0593230361 |
| Author: | Harriet Jacobs |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Torchbearers |
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Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was born into slavery in North Carolina. She became a mother at sixteen, a fugitive slave at twenty-two, and, in January 1861 at the age of forty-eight, the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. During the Civil War, Jacobs and her daughter, Louisa, returned to the South to aid African American refugees. Following the Civil War, they built an orphanage and home for African American children and elders in Savannah, Georgia.
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