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

  $34.81

  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
  2000

  $3.44

  This enlarged edition now completes the Jacobs family saga, one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery , published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Importantly, it presents the people , places, and events Harriet Jacobs wrote about from the different perspectives of a male narrator. Once more, Jean Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication. She has also brought her introduction up to date.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $16.40

• New

  Hardcover
  1988

  $112.89

  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.