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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

A Norton Critical Edition

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America. The text is that of the 1861 first edition.

"Contexts" includes contemporary responses to Incidents, selections from Jacobs's other published writings, and extracts from her correspondence.

"Criticism" includes eleven important assessments of the narrative, contributed by Jean Fagan Yellin, Ann Taves, Valerie Smith, Nellie Y. McKay, Harryette Mullen, Michelle Burnham, Nell Irvin Painter, Frances Smith Foster, Sandra Gunning, Elizabeth V. Spelman, and Christine Accomando.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl A Norton Critical Edition - ISBN:9780393976373

Harriet Jacobs

Edition Number: 1
ISBN: 9780393976373
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Copyright Date: 2000
Published Date: 02/23/1999

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