Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs: A True Tale of Slavery by John S. Jacobs

by George Hendrick (Editor), WilleneHendrick (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $33.28

  These two slave narratives expand our knowledge of the differing ways males and females coped with enslavement and later ordeals in flight. This popularly-priced anthology contains the often taught Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the recently discovered A True Tale of Slavery by John S.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.29

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $15.67

• New

  Hardcover
  1988

  $107.91

  Of many slave narratives published before the Civil War, this is one of the few to be written by a woman, thus offering a unique perspective on the plight of the black woman as slave and as writer.