Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Contributor(s): Jacobs, Harriet (Author), Evers-Williams, Myrlie (Introduction by), Martin, Dawn Lundy (Afterword by)

ISBN: 9780451531469

Publisher: Signet Book

$5.95

Pub Date: January 5, 2010

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2011378357

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 6.70" L x 4.10" W ( 0.30 lbs) 272 pages

BISAC Categories:

Biography and Autobiography | Cultural and Regional | Memoirs

Series: Signet Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

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

Reading level: 7.10

Interest level: UG

Point value: 14.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: One of the most memorable slave narratives, Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" illustrates the overreaching evil and pervasive depravity of the institution of slavery. This edition features a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

Review Quotes: "One of the major autobiographies of the African-American tradition."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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