Incidents i14 the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full—length narra-tire written by a former woman s]ave in America.It tellS the story of Harriet lacobs’S early 1ire as a slave in North Carolina;her fugitive years in Neve York,Boston,and Rochester,where she became an abolition activist;and her struggle for freedom,hard won in 1852.This text is a reprint of the 186l first edition.with explanatory annotations and an introduction bv Nellie Y.cKav and Frances Smith Foster.
“Contexts”includes contemporary responses to Incideuts in the Life of a Slave Girf by William C.Nell and Lvdia Maria Child.among others;twelye related letters and articles by Jacobs published in newspapers during the period from 1853 to 1868:and documents tracing Iacobs’S Iire and achievements as a free woman,including her establishment of a school in Alexandria,Virginia.
“Criftcism”collects eleven important assessments of the work by Jean Fagan Yellin,Ann Taves,Valerie Smith,Nellie Y McKay,Harwette Mullen,Michelle Burnham,NelI Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster,Sandra Gunning,Elizabeth V Spelman,and Christina Accomando.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
【目录】
Introduction
Acknowledgments
The Text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Contexts
CONTEMPORARY RFSPONSES
William C. Nell·Linda, the Slave Girl (Liberator, 21 January 1861)
Unsigned Announcement·From the Anti-Slavery Bugle(9 February 1861)
William C. Nell·Linda (Liberator, 18 February 1861)
Lydia Maria Child·Letter to John GreenleafWhittier(4 April 1861)
Unsigned Announcement·Linda (Christian Recorder,11 January 1862)
SELEGTIONS FROM JACOBS'S OTHER WRITINGS
Harriet Jacobs·Letter from a Fugitive Slave(New York Tribune, 21 June 1853)
·Letter to Amy Post (25 June 1853)
·Cruelty to Slaves (New York Tribune, 25 July 1853)
·Letter to Amy Post (9 October 18537)
·Letter to Amy Post (18 June 1861)
·Life among the Contrabands (Liberator,5 September 1862)
·Letter from Mrs. Jacobs (Black Abolitionist Papers,13 April 1863)
·Letter from Teachers of the Freedmen (National Anti-Slavery Standard, 16 April 1864)
·Jacobs School (Freedmen's Record, March 1865)
·From Savannah (Freedmen's Record, 18 January 1866)
·Savannah Freedmen's Orphan Asylum (Anti-Slavery Reporter, 3 March 1868)
JACOBS'S WORLD
Nathaniel Willis·From The Convalescent (1859)
Lydia Maria Child·Letters to Harriet Jacobs(13 August 186o; 27 September 186o)
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