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(NARRATIVES.) [JACOBS, HARRIET]. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Written by Herself. 306 pages. 8vo, recent black morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards; spine gilt with five raised bands, title and author with in two compartments. Boston: For the Author, 1861
the first edition of the most widely read woman's slave narrative. For many years this book was thought to be just another fictional slave narrative written by Lydia Maria Child, one of the most widely read women authors of the 19th century. However, through years of exhaustive research by Professor Jean Fagan Yellin ("Harriet Jacobs, a Life," Basic Civitas, 2004), Harriet Jacobs has emerged as a very real person, born in Chowan County, North Carolina in 1813. After an extraordinary life, Harriet Jacobs died in Washington D.C. in 1897. Afro Americana, 5191.
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