Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - With Related Documents / Edition 1

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - With Related Documents / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0312442661
ISBN-13:
9780312442668
Pub. Date:
07/27/2009
Publisher:
Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN-10:
0312442661
ISBN-13:
9780312442668
Pub. Date:
07/27/2009
Publisher:
Bedford/St. Martin's
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - With Related Documents / Edition 1

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - With Related Documents / Edition 1

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Overview

Examining the first- and best-known female account of life under, and escape from, slavery, Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Written by Herself recounts Harriet Jacobs' story and shows how she used the written word to liberate herself and promote the end of slavery by inspiring sympathy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312442668
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date: 07/27/2009
Series: Bedford Cultural Editions Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Fleischner (Ph.D., Columbia) is a professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave (2004) and Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives (1996), as well as the historical novel Nobody’s Boy (2006). With Susan Weisser she is also the co-editor of Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood (1994).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
   
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: A New Voice for Freedom
  Jacobs’s Early Life
  What Really Happened?
  Other Dominant Themes
  The Power of the Pen
  Pseudonyms of Key Figures in Incidents in the Life of a
   Slave Girl, Written by Herself
 
PART TWO: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written
 by Herself. Edited by L. Maria Child
 
PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
1. American Beacon, Advertisement for the Capture of Harriet
   Jacobs, July 4, 1835
2. Lydia Maria Child, Charity Bowery, 1844
3. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, 1852?
4. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, April 4, 1853
5. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, March 1854
6. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, June 21, 1857
7. Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Harriet Jacobs, August 13, 1860
8. Weekly Anglo-African, Review of Incidents in the Life of a
   Slave Girl, April 13, 1861
9. John S. Jacobs, A True Tale of Slavery, 1861
10. Harriet Jacobs, Life Among the Contrabands, 1862
11. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Ednah Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867
 
Appendixes
  A Harriet Jacobs Chronology (1813-1897)
  Questions for Consideration  
  Selected Bibliography 
Index 
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