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Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs; Jennifer Fleischner - Second Edition, 2020 from Macmillan Student Store
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Table of Contents

Foreword 
Preface  
PART ONE. Introduction: A New Voice for Freedom 
Jacobs’s Early Life 
What Really Happened? 
Other Dominant Themes 
The Power of the Pen 
Pseudonyms of Key Figures in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
 
PART TWO. The Document
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Edited by L. Maria Child 

PART THREE. Related Documents 
1. Original Title Page 
2. Will of Margaret Horniblow, April 8, 1825 
3. American Beacon, Advertisement for the Capture of Harriet Jacobs, July 4, 1835 
4. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, 1852? 
5. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, April 4, 1853 
6. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, March 1854 
7. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, June 21, 1857 
8. Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Harriet Jacobs, August 13, 1860 
9. Weekly Anglo-African, Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, April 13, 1861 
10. “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?”
11. John S. Jacobs, A True Tale of Slavery, 1861 
12. Harriet Jacobs, Life Among the Contrabands, 1862 
13. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Edna Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867 

APPENDIXES
A Harriet Jacobs Chronology (1813–1897) 
Questions for Consideration 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

Authors

Harriet Jacobs


Jennifer Fleischner

Jennifer Fleischner (PhD, Columbia) is a professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave (2003) and Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives (1996), as well as the historical novels Nobody’s Boy (2006), and I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (1997). With Susan Weisser she is also the coeditor of Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood (1994).


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Table of Contents

Foreword 
Preface  
PART ONE. Introduction: A New Voice for Freedom 
Jacobs’s Early Life 
What Really Happened? 
Other Dominant Themes 
The Power of the Pen 
Pseudonyms of Key Figures in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
 
PART TWO. The Document
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Edited by L. Maria Child 

PART THREE. Related Documents 
1. Original Title Page 
2. Will of Margaret Horniblow, April 8, 1825 
3. American Beacon, Advertisement for the Capture of Harriet Jacobs, July 4, 1835 
4. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, 1852? 
5. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, April 4, 1853 
6. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, March 1854 
7. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, June 21, 1857 
8. Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Harriet Jacobs, August 13, 1860 
9. Weekly Anglo-African, Review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, April 13, 1861 
10. “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?”
11. John S. Jacobs, A True Tale of Slavery, 1861 
12. Harriet Jacobs, Life Among the Contrabands, 1862 
13. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Edna Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867 

APPENDIXES
A Harriet Jacobs Chronology (1813–1897) 
Questions for Consideration 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

Harriet Jacobs


Jennifer Fleischner

Jennifer Fleischner (PhD, Columbia) is a professor of English at Adelphi University. She is the author of Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave (2003) and Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives (1996), as well as the historical novels Nobody’s Boy (2006), and I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (1997). With Susan Weisser she is also the coeditor of Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood (1994).


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