Description
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlremains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spent hiding in her grandmother's attic from her sexually abusive master-as well as illuminating the wider world into which Jacobs escaped. Yellin's groundbreaking scholarship restores a life whose sorrows and triumphs reflect the history of the nineteenth century, from slavery to the Civil War, to Reconstruction and beyond. Winner of the 2004 Frederick Douglass Prize, presented by Yale University's Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, awarded to the year's best non-fiction book on slavery, resistance and abolition, the most prestigious award for the study of the black experience.
Author: Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.32h x 3.71w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780465092895
ISBN10: 0465092896
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Jean Fagan Yellin is the author of Women and Sisters and The Intricate Knot. She divides her time between Goldens Bridge, New York, and Sarasota, Florida.