A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.
| ISBN: | 9780140437959 |
| Publication date: | 24th November 2005 |
| Author: | Harriet A Jacobs, Nell Irvin Painter, John S Jacobs |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 277 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: general Slavery and abolition of slavery History of the Americas |