Harriet Jacobs
a life
by Jean Fagan Yellin
- 0 Ratings
- 4 Want to read
- 0 Currently reading
- 0 Have read
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spent hiding in her grandmother's attic from her sexually abusive master-as well as illuminating the wider world into which Jacobs escaped. Yellin's groundbreaking scholarship restores a life whose sorrows and triumphs reflect the history of the nineteenth century, from slavery to the Civil War, to Reconstruction and beyond. Winner of the 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize, presented by Yale University’s Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, awarded to the year’s best non-fiction book on slavery, resistance and abolition, the most prestigious award for the study of the black experience.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
African American women social reformers, Women slaves, African American women authors, Slaves, Biography, Esclaves, Biographies, Femmes esclaves, Écrivaines noires américaines, Réformatrices sociales noires américaines, Slaven (arbeid), Jacobs, harriet a. (harriet ann), 1813-1897, Enslaved persons, united states, Enslaved women, African american women, Women authors, Women, united states, biography, Social reformersPlaces
United States, North CoralinaTimes
19th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4
|
eeee
|
Book Details
Published in
New York
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-376) and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?Lists
See All
| July 17, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| June 26, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| February 14, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
| July 22, 2017 | Edited by Mek | adding subject: In library |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |