Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.
Iola Leroy "may well have [been] influenced" by Harriet Jacobs's 1861 autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [20] The novel was "awarded more blame than praise" by literary critics, but "initial readers responded positively", [21] causing the novel to be reprinted until 1895. From then on, however, it was not re-published until ...
Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
Harriet Jacobs in 1894. Yellin is best known for her research on the former slave Harriet Jacobs and her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Although Incidents had been quite popular at the time of the American Civil War, "by the twentieth century both Jacobs and her book were forgotten".
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; L. The Liberty Bell (annual) O. Over the River and Through the Wood This page was last edited on 10 September 2017, at ...
Prince Tete, a local, leans against a fence of a mass grave at the Assin Praso heritage site, Ghana. (Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters) ADIDWAN, Ghana — Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his ...
He castigated both the slave holders (the 600,000) and the rest of American society for their complicity. John Jacobs also features prominently, under the pseudonym "William", in the classic Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), authored by his sister Harriet Jacobs .
In 1860, Child was invited to write a preface to Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She met Jacobs and agreed not only to write the preface but also became the editor of the book. [citation needed]