{"product_id":"the-harriet-jacobs-family-papers-jean-fagan-yellin-9780807831311","title":"The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers","description":"Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of \u003ci\u003eIncidents\u003c\/i\u003e--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Fagan Yellin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080783131X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807831311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Boxed Set\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 6.60w x 3.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2008 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/28\/2008 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2009 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Supplements\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2008 pg. 56","brand":"Jean Fagan Yellin","offers":[{"title":"Boxed Set","offer_id":43926304424191,"sku":"9780807831311","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fc8f1de0-8384-4b87-9f9f-26d93d82ef5d.jpg?v=1681082329","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-harriet-jacobs-family-papers-jean-fagan-yellin-9780807831311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}