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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
Author | : Jean Fagan Yellin |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781469625799 |
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Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. Jean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of Incidents--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times.
Harriet Jacobs
Author | : Jean Yellin |
Publsiher | : Civitas Books |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015059960958 |
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For the first time--the complete story of the life and times of the most important black woman writer of the 19th century.
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
Author | : Harriet Ann Jacobs,John S. Jacobs,Louisa Matilda Jacobs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 39 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:552640396 |
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The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers
Author | : Harriet Ann Jacobs |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 080783131X |
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Harriet Jacob's life exemplifies the history of her people throughout the nineteenth century. The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers, composed of writings by Jacobs, her brother John S. Jacobs, and her daughter Louisa Matilda Jacobs, writings to them, and private and public writings about them, presents a unique angle of vision. Fueled by the conflict between the impluse of liberty inspiring American life and the institution of chattel slavery blighting that life, the papers collected here off new perspectives on nineteenth-century struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism. The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers is designed as a lasting contribution to the ongoing study of the ways in which these national struggles and the social conditions that gave rise to them have shaped our culture and continue to shape our lives.
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs
Author | : Mary Maillard |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299311803 |
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Harriet Jacobs's famous autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa, who had been taken away to the North by her white father. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters. In this annotated correspondence, new voices call out from the lost world of nineteenth-century African American women who persevered despite difficult family obligations and the racial strife that marked the post-Reconstruction era.
Letters from a Slave Boy
Author | : Mary E. Lyons |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2007-01-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780689878671 |
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A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.
Letters From a Slave Girl
Author | : Mary E. Lyons |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008-06-25 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781439108772 |
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Based on the true story of Harriet Ann Jacobs, Letters from a Slave Girl reveals in poignant detail what thousands of African American women had to endure not long ago, sure to enlighten, anger, and never be forgotten. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be given her freedom, and for the first time Harriet feels hopeful. But hoping can be dangerous, because disappointment is devastating. Harriet has one last hope, though: escape to the North. And as she faces numerous ordeals, this hope gives her the strength she needs to survive.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
Author | : Audrey Fisch |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2007-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139827591 |
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The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.