Description
Product ID: | 9780140437959 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
Subtitle: | Written by Herself |
Authors: | Author: Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irving Painter |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Literary studies: general, Ethnic studies, Literary studies: general, Black & Asian studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs'' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2005-11-24 |