About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Acceptable. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780674002715ISBN:0674002717
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dodo Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781406510010ISBN:1406510017
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Edition: Book Club
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard, Cambridge
Date Published: c1987
Description: b/w photos. near fine, trade paper, photo brown covers, clean text, tight. 306 pgs, No printed ISBN. Indexed. Edited by L. Maria Child, intro by Jean Fagan Yellin. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 12th ptg
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, NY
Date Published: (1988)
Description: G lg sz PB. Born a slave in NC in 1813, Harriet became a fugitive in 1830s & recorded her struggle for freedom pseudonymously in 1861. A remarkable grandmother who hid her from her master for 7 years, a brother who escape & spoke out for abolition, her two children whom she rescued & sent north. She recalls the degradation of slavery & the special sexual oppression she found as a slave women, the master who was determined to make her his concubine, his jealous wife, the future congressman who ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: (1987)
Description: Frontis of author, illus. VG PB. Born a slave in N. Carolina in 1813 and became a fugitive in 1830s, she recorded her triumphant struggle for freedom. Published pseudonymously in 1861. She recounts of her family's history, a grandmother who hid her from her master for 7 years, a brother who escaped and spoke out for abolition, her two children whom she rescued and sent north, a master determined to make her his concubine, his jealous wife, the future congressman who father her children and ... read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Description: Very Good. B000S7224M paperback in very good condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Cover has slight shelf wear. Appears gently read. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1987
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Has underlining and marginalia. Some creasing in cover and spine. Has some light edge and corner wearWe recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! 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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