Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
by Jacobs, Harriet A
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- ISBN 10
- 0674447468
- ISBN 13
- 9780674447462
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Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1987. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Edited and with an Introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin. b/w illustrations--photographs, documents, diagrams. Brown cover with illustration of Harriet Jacobs, clean, light wear to all edges, lower front corner creases, binding tight, solid and square. Pages quite clean, no marks of any kind, no creasing, in very good condition. Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in North Carolina in 1813 and became a fugitive slave in the 1830s. She recorded her struggle for freedom in an autobiography that was published pseudonymously in 1861. This is a major antebellum autobiography of a black woman. With Frederick Douglass' account of his life, it is one of the two archetypes in the genre of the slave narrative. xxxiv, 306 pages with Notes and Index. 5.75 x 9.25 inches. 1987, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
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- Title
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
- Author
- Jacobs, Harriet A
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0674447468
- ISBN 13
- 9780674447462
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- SLAVERY HISTORY, UNITED STATES MISCEGENATION FUGITIVE SLAVES EMANCIPATION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
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- 0 oz
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