Product Description: In this remarkable biography, Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , one of the most widely read slave narratives of all time, recounts through the pseudonymous character named "Linda" the adventures of a young female slave who spent seven years in her grandmother's attic hiding from her sexually abusive and cruel master...read more

Traces the efforts of abolitionist feminists to support a double crusade--to liberate slaves and women

A bibliography of writing by and about African-American women lists writing by African-American women whose earliest publication appeared before 1910, and includes a supplemental bibliography listing writings published 1911 to the present day.

The author recounts her childhood in slavery, her escape to the north, and the help she received from both Blacks and Whites, and documents the degradation and injustices of slavery (view table of contents)