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The Harriet Jacobs family papers
By Jacobs, Harriet A. & Jacobs, John S. & Jacobs, Louisa Matilda & Yellin, Jean Fagan
- ISBN
- 978-0-80783-131-1
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2008
This masterwork stems from Pace University English professor emerita Yellin's more than 25 years of research and writing on Harriet Jacobs (1813-97), including her 2002 biography but beginning with her 1987 annotated edition of Jacobs's 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Pathbreaking in both U.S. history and American literature, Incidents shunned the pattern of black men's ex-slave narratives and white women's fanciful fiction. It posted an authentic black woman's tale of slavery, sexual assault, and resistance. Jacobs repeatedly ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
