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Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Jacobs, Harriet

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Book Id: WPLBN0100002653
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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

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Jacobs, B. H. (1861). Selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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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.

 
 



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