books by Harriet Jacobs

books by Harriet Jacobs

books:

Harriet Jacobs

Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Health, Suffrage, and Peace
Aletta Jacobs

The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996

The first of Aletta Jacobs's major works available in English, Memories introduces American readers to a remarkable woman-a key Dutch feminist who herself broke new ground, and who worked alongside world-renowned leaders in the progressive movements of the early twentieth century. Aletta Jacobs learned to lvoe the medical profession from ...

The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill
Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill

Indiana University Press, 1998

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ...

Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs

Modern Library, 2004

A potent pairing of two essential autobiographies
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (first published in 1845) and Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861) are probably the two most powerful examples of the slave narrative. This literary form represents the first-person accounts of ...

Classic Slave Narratives, ...

BompaCrazy.com, 2008

Your purchase helps fund free educational resources at BompaCrazy.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This collection of classic slave narratives includes The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, and The History of Mary Prince.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic

Harriet Jacobs

Prestwick House, Inc., 2006

Rare first hand account of slavery
Harriet Jacobs book Life of a Slave Girl is a unique piece of slave literature directly from the pen of an articulate slave. One gets a sense of the poignant way she can retell the story of her enslavement from a passage she writes in the preface of her book. ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Dover Thrift Editions)

Harriet Jacobs

Dover Publications, 2001

Compelling Account, Easily Read
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / 0-674-44746-8 It is amusing to note that Jacobs' autobiography was published just prior to Stowe's famous Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's work, for all it's virtues, is (to modern eyes, at least) painfully didactic, frequently ...

Three Narratives of Slavery
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, ...

Dover Publications, 2008

WORLD GOVERNMENT: GREAT LIVES (Great Lives)
Harriet Jacobs

Atheneum, 1993

Profiles of twenty-five world leaders whose actions shaped the course of world history include Mahatma Gandhi, Kemal Atatu+a5rk, Fidel Castro, Napole+a7on Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and Simo+a7n Boli+a7var.

Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Dover Publications, 1992

Great stories, not enough pictures
This book has some of my favorite Grimm fairy tales, & others which I have never had the opportunity to read before. In addition to Sleeping Beauty, it has Hansel & Gretel, The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, & Rapunzel (my childhood ...

We Speak for Peace: An Anthology

Knowledge, Ideas & Trends, 1993

peace
I have read a lot of this book, and I think it is an awesome collection of poems and stories. It seems as though some of the poems were written quite a while ago, but none-the-less, it is still an wonderful title for anyone looking for something about peace. It is ...

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Seven Years Concealed

Harriet Jacobs

Kessinger Publishing, 2004

Her fight prefigures the defeat of slavery
Incidents is typically viewed as an outstanding example of Black feminist resistance to slavery as well as a protest against the fugitive slave laws. Yet, it can also be seen as an assessment of the forces available to eliminate slavery as a whole, part of a debate ...