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Provides a detailed study of the life of the nineteenth-century writer, covering her life under slavery, as a fugitive slave, and in the post-Civil War years, and her writing of the slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yellin, Jean Fagan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2004]
Subjects:
Jacobs, Harriet A. > (Harriet Ann), > 1813-1897.
Jacobs, Harriet A. > (Harriet Ann), > 1813-1897
Jacobs, Harriet A. > 1818-1896
Jacobs, Harriet A. <1813-1897> - (Harriet Ann)
Jacobs, Harriet A.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
Enslaved women > United States > Biography.
African American women authors > Biography.
African American women social reformers > Biography.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivaines noires américaines > Biographies.
Réformatrices sociales noires américaines > Biographies.
African American women authors
African American women social reformers
Enslaved persons
Enslaved women
United States
Slaven (arbeid)
Biographie.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographie (Descripteur de forme)
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Summary:Provides a detailed study of the life of the nineteenth-century writer, covering her life under slavery, as a fugitive slave, and in the post-Civil War years, and her writing of the slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
Physical Description:xxi, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Awards:Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2004
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376) and index.
ISBN:0465092888
9780465092888
9780465092895
0465092896