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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) [JACOBS, HARRIET ANN]. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by Lydia Maria Child. 306 pages. 8vo, original cloth, re-cased with the original spine laid down; occasional light foxing. Boston: For the Author, 1861
first edition of a rare and genuine autobiographic narrative, long thought to have been the work of lydia maria child. In the 1980s, scholarship by Pace University professor Jean Yellin Fagan proved that Harriet Jacobs was the true author of this well-written and important narrative. Child was her editor.
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