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A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs'' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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A Paperback / softback by Harriet Jacobs, Nell Irving Painter

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 24/11/2005
    ISBN13: 9780140437959, 978-0140437959
    ISBN10: 0140437959
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    Biography: adventurers and explorers History of the Americas Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs'' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.

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