Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Jacobs, Harriet

Book Id: WPLBN0100002653
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 1/1/1861

Title:	Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Author:	Jacobs, Harriet
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, History of America, Slavery
Collections:	Authors Community, History
Historic Publication Date:	1861
Publisher:	Thayer & Eldridge

Member Page:	History Is A Weapon .org
Citation APA MLA Chicago Jacobs, B. H. (1861). Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Harriet A. Jacobs. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself(1 861). First printed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861. Reprinted as Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, ed. L. Maria Child; enlarged ed., ed. Jean Fagan YeUin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 68-71.

Summary
In 1861, the year the Civil War began, Jacobs published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, under the pseudonym Linda Brent. During the 1850s, when Jacobs was writing her book, slavery was a highly explosive issue in the rapidly expanding United States.