Harriet Jacobs (1) (1813–1897)
Author of The Classic Slave Narratives
For other authors named Harriet Jacobs, see the disambiguation page.
Harriet Jacobs (1) has been aliased into Harriet A. Jacobs.
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Works by Harriet Jacobs
Works have been aliased into Harriet A. Jacobs.
Associated Works
Works have been aliased into Harriet A. Jacobs.
The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (2012) — Contributor — 192 copies, 1 review
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present (1992) — Contributor — 187 copies
The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (2013) — Contributor — 168 copies, 1 review
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Contributor — 129 copies, 2 reviews
Reconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial Equality (2018) — Contributor — 125 copies, 1 review
Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves (2005) — Contributor — 104 copies, 1 review
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers (2017) — Contributor — 77 copies, 1 review
I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives: Volume Two, 1849-1866 (1999) — Contributor — 36 copies
Before Harlem: An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century (2016) — Contributor — 12 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Jacobs, Harriet Ann
- Birthdate
- 1813-02-11
- Date of death
- 1897-03-17
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- author
reformer
slave - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Edenton, North Carolina, USA
- Places of residence
- Washington, D.C., USA
Idlewild
New York, USA
Edenton, North Carolina, USA - Place of death
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Burial location
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Frederick Douglass's account is searing. The plantation owners create a system of unremitting torture and terror. Slaves are whipped for no reason, forced to work every moment of the day, and are always hungry for lack of food. Douglass rebels, and, impossibly, survives.
Powerful slave narratives, recalling the abuse and mistreatment of slavery. If a reader can get past the repitious form of the narrative, there are poignant stories to be told. Recent revelations regarding the authenticity of the stories though, especially "Narrative of a Slave Girl" casts some doubt on the work.
Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves ahd written what caalled slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other ear, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.
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