Author: Jacobs, Harriet A., edited with a introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin,
Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by herself, now with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs by her brother.
Description: Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1861, 2002). Enlarged ed. VG lg sz PB. Yellin who discovered the long lost document, supplies annotation and authentication, has brought her introduction. up to date. Jacobs details in great and painful detail the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her life, and the life of every other black female slave. Gross indiginities and subtler social arrangements written with passion and insight into the peculiar institution of slavery. "Not what I have heard but what I have seen.".

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