The Harriet Jacobs Page

( 1813-1897 )

Major Work
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ( 1861 ). Edited (originally) by L[ydia] Maria Child. This important slave narrative has been edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by Harvard, 1987. On Line

About Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. Edited by Deborah Garfield and Rafia Zafar. Cambridge, 1996.
A Dramatization of Incidents
Harriet Jacobs from Voices From the Gaps.
PAL Harriet Jacobs Page

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