About this title: This classic memoir of slave life, written by a highly-literate North Carolina slave, was first published at the beginning of the Civil War when Jacobs had escaped to the North and begun campaigning for abolition. Her narrative focused especially clearly on the ways that slavery degraded women through sexual abuse and the separation of mothers ...
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Description: Very Good/No Jacket. 0674447468 Clean Copy The cover is in excellent condition with very minimal wearing of the corners and edges. There is an introductin by Jean Fagan Yellin. The illustrations and text are all clean, bright and tight. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780674447462ISBN:0674447468
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Price stamp on frontspiece. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780674447462ISBN:0674447468
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. notes and underlining in ink crease on corner on cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780674447462ISBN:0674447468
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good condition, contains some pen writing/underling, solid binding, some wear. Your purchase is greatly appreciated, thank you, bookwolfe. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"I read this on DailyLit and have to say that it is an amazing story. This is probably one of few autobiographical accounts of women in slavery and to watch the fire she has for freedom wax and wane through her trials and tribulations is something that I'm really thankful I got to partake in. I am in awe of her firm trust in God throughout her experiences and the confidence she had in the truth that all men and women are created equal even when everything around her was trying to tell her otherwise. A must read."
"Please don't hate me for giving this book only two stars. I am not a racist or anything, and I think that slavery was one of the worst things that we, as humans, have ever done. This book was wonderfully written. Harriet Ann Jacobs has a true gift with words. I was even reminded of Nabokov's writing, ha ha. But, come on, let's face it: this is so old. We've heard the stories and we know it already. I didn't even finish this book, cause I knew how it was going to end. This would be great if it's your first book of this sort, or if you haven't studied slavery. However, if you have done either of those, spend your time reading something better."
"I had read this narrative before, at least three different times, but the repeat reading only brings more of the details to the reader's attention. Since the previous readings were so long ago, I didn't remember too many of the details of the narrative. It was like I was reading Jacobs' story for the first time. Harriet Ann Jacobs is very deliberate in her language and the way she acts as supplicator and judge. The complexity of the language is often overshadowed by the "flowery" writing of the time period. Jacobs is a complex individual and narrator who tells the story from the first person perspective of Linda Brent, a fictional pseudonym. Even though I read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl for a graduate American literature course, I was inspired to write a research paper about Jacobs' story and present it at a literature conference. This narrative enlightens the reader on many levels and offers a critical examination of one of America's darkest periods of history-- African American slavery."
"Exceptional autobiography by Harriet Jacobs. Demands true examination of the atrocities of slavery on both an emotional and intellectual level. The author gives exceptional access to her thoughts, fears, and hopes. "And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen that mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degredation. Yet few slaveholders seem to be aware of the widespread moral ruin occasioned by this wicked system. Their talk is of blighted cotton crops-not of the blight on their children's souls. If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantaion, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.""
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