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books by Harriet Jacobs

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Girlebooks Classics)

63 reviews

Girlebooks, 2008

Unexpected turn of events
It's obvious the difficulty slaves endured. Ironic, but she endures a great deal more than most. How her story ends is not predictable.

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

2 reviews
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. ". . . I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions ...

ABC's for Seniors: Successful Aging Wisdom from an Outrageous Gerontologist
Ph.D. Ruth Harriet Jacobs

Hatala Geroproducts, 2006

Are you aging outrageously and courageously? In ABC?s for Seniors, Dr. Ruth Jacobs presents the essentials that enable a reader to harvest life fully for creative, healthy, successful, vigorous, and meaningful aging. Topics covered include: * Reverse birthday gifts * Continuing education * Safe driving renewal * Journaling * Moving your home * Councils on Aging * Love and sex * Good accumulating * Bereavement and the holidays * ...

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

3 reviews
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 individuals who have lived as slaves. The Modern Library has paired these two essential American texts in a single edition, with an ...

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 her physician father, who took her on his rounds. Despite a sex-segregated education system, she ...

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 Seven Years Concealed

2 reviews
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 that unfolded in the years leading up to the civil war about what force could possibly overthrow slavery whose ascendancy not only ...

WORLD RELIGIONS: GREAT LIVES (Great Lives)
Harriet Jacobs

Atheneum, 1996

For centuries, throughout the world, communities of believers have been guided by the great religious leaders of recorded history. In this collection, Jacobs writes vividly and authoritatively about many of those leaders in both the Eastern and Western worlds. Among those profiled are Confucius and the Buddha, Mohandas Gandhi, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Photos.

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.