The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers

The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 1052
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ISBN-10 : 9781469625799
ISBN-13 : 1469625792
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers by : Jean Fagan Yellin

Download or read book The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers written by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. Jean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of Incidents--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times.

Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs
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Publisher : Civitas Books
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059960958
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Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Harriet Jacobs by : Jean Yellin

Download or read book Harriet Jacobs written by Jean Yellin and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time--the complete story of the life and times of the most important black woman writer of the 19th century.

Whispers of Cruel Wrongs

Whispers of Cruel Wrongs
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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780299311803
ISBN-13 : 0299311805
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Whispers of Cruel Wrongs by : Mary Maillard

Download or read book Whispers of Cruel Wrongs written by Mary Maillard and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters, written in part by the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, offer profound insight into a hidden world--the private lives of genteel African American women in the late nineteenth century.

The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers

The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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Total Pages : 39
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:552640396
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Book Synopsis The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers by : Harriet Ann Jacobs

Download or read book The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers written by Harriet Ann Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters From a Slave Girl

Letters From a Slave Girl
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781439108772
ISBN-13 : 1439108773
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Letters From a Slave Girl by : Mary E. Lyons

Download or read book Letters From a Slave Girl written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of Harriet Ann Jacobs, Letters from a Slave Girl reveals in poignant detail what thousands of African American women had to endure not long ago, sure to enlighten, anger, and never be forgotten. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be given her freedom, and for the first time Harriet feels hopeful. But hoping can be dangerous, because disappointment is devastating. Harriet has one last hope, though: escape to the North. And as she faces numerous ordeals, this hope gives her the strength she needs to survive.

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781139827591
ISBN-13 : 1139827596
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by : Audrey Fisch

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative written by Audrey Fisch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

Letters from a Slave Boy

Letters from a Slave Boy
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9780689878671
ISBN-13 : 0689878672
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Letters from a Slave Boy by : Mary E. Lyons

Download or read book Letters from a Slave Boy written by Mary E. Lyons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.