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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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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted 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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Description

306 pages; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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,

Additional Formats (note)

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

from Arthur A. Schomburg;

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
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

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

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

Researchers are restricted to the electronic resource.

Source

Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-J (Jacobs, H. A. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 1861) (copy 1), Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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