Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs (Enlarged)

Contributor(s): Jacobs, Harriet a (Author), Yellin, Jean Fagan (Editor), Jacobs, John S (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9780674035836

Publisher: Belknap Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$25.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$37.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$36.75 (100+ copies: $36.00)

List/retail price:

$25.00

Pub Date: November 1, 2009

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2009016471

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.40" H x 8.20" L x 5.50" W ( 1.10 lbs) 496 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: John Harvard Library

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000179006 ( Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs (Enlarged))

Reading level: 7.10

Interest level: UG

Point value: 14.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs's short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs's autobiography.

Brief description: Jean Fagan Yellin, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Pace University, is the author of Harriet Jacobs: A Life and the editor of The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers.

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