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Incidents in the life of a slave girl

Title
Incidents in the life of a slave girl / written by herself ; edited by L. Maria Child.
Author
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
Publication
Boston : Published for the Author, 1861.

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TextRestricted use Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
TextRestricted use Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors
  • Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
  • Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.
Description
306 pages; 20 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  • Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Slave narratives.
  • Inscriptions (Provenance)
Note
  • Author's preface signed, page 6: Linda Brent [pseudonym of Harriet A. Jacobs].
  • "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.
  • "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry."--verso of title page.
  • By Mrs. Harriet Jacobs. cf. Cushing, Initials and pseudonyms.
Indexed In (note)
  • Davis & Joyce. Personal writings by women
  • Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America
  • Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
  • Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in digital form.
Provenance (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861)
LCCN
11021729
OCLC
  • 1172152
  • NYPGR1172152-B
Author
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
Title
Incidents in the life of a slave girl / written by herself ; edited by L. Maria Child.
Imprint
Boston : Published for the Author, 1861.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Davis & Joyce. Personal writings by women, 2473
Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America, p. 68
Wright, L.H. American fiction, 1851-1875, 1333
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 5191
Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3654, column 1, row 4
Additional Formats
Also available in digital form.
Provenance
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
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.
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.
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Plain text PDF available via the African American Women Writers of the 19th Century Project
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Added Author
Black author.
Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
Boston Stereotype Foundry, stereotyper.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861)
*WIY 97-255
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