Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself

Contributor(s): Jacobs, Harriet (Author), Painter, Nell Irvin (Editor), Painter, Nell Irvin (Introduction by), Painter, Nell Irvin (Notes by)

ISBN: 9780140437959

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Binding Types:

Paperback

$16.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$28.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$27.75 (100+ copies: $27.00)

List/retail price:

$16.00

Pub Date: July 1, 2000

Dewey: B

LCCN: 99055803

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.59" H x 7.92" L x 5.02" W ( 0.49 lbs) 320 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Penguin Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000179006 ( Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself)

Reading level: 7.10

Interest level: UG

Point value: 14.0

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Description: 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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