Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
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Fanny Fern
feminism
Frederick Douglas
fugitive slaves
GA
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs Free School
Incidents on the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
John S. Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Nathaniel Parker Willis
NC
Reconstruction
refugees
Savannah
slave narratives
slavery
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William C. Nell
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- ISBN 9780807831311
- Weight: 1985g
- Dimensions: 167 x 256mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2008
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the only collection of papers of an African American woman held in slavery.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' 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 an essential launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs' life and times.
Jean Fagan Yellin is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Pace University. She is author or editor of ten books, including the award-winning Harriet Jacobs: A Life.
