Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
2. Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.

Description

1. 306 pages; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

1. Slavery > North Carolina
2. Enslaved women > North Carolina > Biography
3. Enslaved women > United States > Biography
4. Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Biography
5. Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
6. Jacobs, Harriet A (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
7. Slavery > North Carolina > Chowan County
8. Women > North Carolina > Biography
9. Inscriptions (Provenance)
10. Slave narratives
11. African Americans > North Carolina > Biography
12. Black author

Genre/Form

1. Slave narratives.
2. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861)

Note

1. Author's preface signed, page 6: Linda Brent [pseudonym of Harriet A. Jacobs].
2. "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by L. Maria Child, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
3. "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry."--verso of title page.
4. By Mrs. Harriet Jacobs. cf. Cushing, Initials and pseudonyms.

Indexed in (note)

1. Davis & Joyce. Personal writings by women
2. Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America
3. Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875
4. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
5. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in digital form.

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in pencil on recto of first free endleaf "This book was written by a woman named Harriet Jacobs. She was born a slave in North Carolina-- escaped from there, and lived eighteen years, in the family of N.P. Willis at Idewild. This volume was bought from herself. She is a mulatto, and of a very intelligent countenance. She brought introductions from Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Child. May 11th 1861." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.

Title

1. Incidents in the life of a slave girl / written by herself ; edited by L. Maria Child.

Imprint

1. Boston : Published for the Author, 1861.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Indexed in:

1. Davis & Joyce. Personal writings by women, 2473
2. Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America, p. 68
3. Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 1333
4. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 5191
5. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3654, column 1, row 4

Additional formats

1. Also available in digital form.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-J (copy 1) (accession no. B526632) inscribed: in pencil on recto of first free endleaf "This book was written by a woman named Harriet Jacobs. She was born a slave in North Carolina-- escaped from there, and lived eighteen years, in the family of N.P. Willis at Idewild. This volume was bought from herself. She is a mulatto, and of a very intelligent countenance. She brought introductions from Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Child. May 11th 1861." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of the book; copy 1 is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. It also includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," NYPL's perforated stamp, and the early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Imperfect: brittle, library bound in hunter green cloth over broads, and gilt spine title.
2. Copy 2 is originally part of the 135 Street Branch, Circulation Department; It's a pre-1926 gift, added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It includes ink stamps of: "Division of Negro Literature and History;" Property of the City of New York;" and "The New York Public Library: Circulation Department, 135 Street Branch, 103 West 135th St." It also includes NYPL's bookplate of Reference Collection of Negro Literature, early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection and NYPL's perforated stamps. Bound in purple and orange marble cloth over boards, library binding, and gilt spine title.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections Material
2. Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project
3. Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)

Added author

1. Black author.
2. Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
3. Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.
4. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 11021729

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861)
2. *WIY 97-255