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Incidents in the life of a slave girl / written by herself, Harriet Jacobs. With A true tale of slavery / by John S. Jacobs ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nell Irvin Painter.
LIBRA E444.J17 A3 2000b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
- Jacobs, Harriet A.
- Jacobs, John S., 1815-1875.
- Jacobs, John S.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- United States.
- Enslaved women--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 277 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277).
- Contains:
- Jacobs, John S., 1815-1875. True tale of slavery.
- True tale of slavery.
- ISBN:
- 0140437959
- OCLC:
- 42786211
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