Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-18972005
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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.
Main title:
Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs, John S. Jacobs ; edited by Neil Irvin Painter.
Author:
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897, authorJacobs, John S., 1815-1875, authorPainter, Nell Irvin, editor
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2005.
Collation:
320 pages
ISBN:
9780140437959 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
306.362092
Language:
English
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BRN:
178820
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