Harriet Jacobs : a life / Jean Fagan Yellin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yellin, Jean Fagan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.

Jacobs, Harriet A.

Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

African American women social reformers.

African American women authors--Biography.

African American women authors.

United States.

Enslaved women--United States--Biography.

Enslaved women.

African American women social reformers--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographie.

Physical Description:

xxi, 394 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2004]

Summary:

Provides a detailed study of the life of the nineteenth-century writer, covering her life under slavery, as a fugitive slave, and in the post-Civil War years, and her writing of the slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

Contents:

Hatty

Private Dreams of Freedom and a Home

So Fondly Shielded

My Puny Arm Felt Strong

A Determined Will

Cunning Against Cunning

Sometimes Like Freedom

Linda

Public Dreams of Freedom and a Home

A Great Millstone Lifted

Let Me Come Before the World

The Slave's Own Story

Mrs. Jacobs

Public Demands For Freedom and Homes

Spared for this Work

Justice Will Come

Marching Without a Lance

No Cloudless Happiness

Remember the Poor

Unshaken by the Wind.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376) and index.

William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Winner, 2004

Other Format:

Online version: Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs.

ISBN:

0465092888

9780465092888

9780465092895

0465092896

OCLC:

52887290

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