Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs - ISBN: 9780140437959
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A slave’s harrowing fight for freedom, hidden in plain sight.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Written by Herself

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2019

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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
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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