Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with “A True Tale of Slavery” by John S. Jacobs (The John Harvard Library)

by Harriet A. Jacobs

Jean Fagan Yellin (Editor) and John S. Jacobs

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This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother’s perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs’s autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents further historical information about family life so well described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and authentication.

This is the standard edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, reissued here in the John Harvard Library and updated with a new bibliography.

  • ISBN10 0674035836
  • ISBN13 9780674035836
  • Publish Date 1 November 2009 (first published 6 December 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Imprint The Belknap Press
  • Edition 3rd edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 496
  • Language English