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This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave
narrative completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most
memorable in all of American history. John S. Jacobs s short slave
narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861,
adds a brother s perspective to Harriet A. Jacobs s autobiography.
It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs
presents further historical information about family life so well
described already by his sister. Once more, Jean Fagan Yellin, who
discovered this long-lost document, supplies annotation and
authentication. This is the standard edition of "Incidents in the
Life of a Slave Girl," reissued here in the John Harvard Library
and updated with a new bibliography.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Paperback)
Harriet Beecher Stowe; Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin
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`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this
great war!' These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham
Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first
American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's
novel charts the progress from slavery to freedom of fugitives who
escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who
transcends all earthly ties. At the middle of the
nineteenth-century, the names of its characters - Little Eva,
Topsy, Uncle Tom - were renowned. A hundred years later, `Uncle
Tom' still had meaning, but, to Blacks everywhere it had become a
curse. This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the
context of African-American writing, the issues of race and the
role of women. Its appendices include the most important
contemporary African-American literary responses to the
glorification of Uncle Tom's Christian resignation as well as
excerpts from popular slave narratives, quoted by Stowe in her
justification of the dramatization of slavery, Key to Uncles Tom's
Cabin. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
has made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A small group of black and white American women who banded together
in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism,
the "antislavery females" included many who ultimately struggled
for equal rights for women as well. Organizing fundraising fairs,
writing pamphlets and giftbooks, circulating petitions, even
speaking before "promiscuous" audiences including men and women-the
antislavery women energetically created a diverse and dynamic
political culture. A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century
reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on
the principal female antislavery societies, discussions of black
women's political culture in the antebellum North, articles on the
strategies and tactics the antislavery women devised, a pictorial
essay presenting rare graphics from both sides of abolitionist
debates, and a final chapter comparing the experiences of the
American and British women who attended the 1840 World Anti-Slavery
Convention in London.
This is the only collection of papers of an African American woman
held in slavery.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,
""Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"", holds a central place in
the canon of American literature as the most important slave
narrative by an African American woman.Born 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.Jean 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 Incidents - from scholars to schoolchildren - access to the rich
historical context of Jacobs' 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 an essential launching point for
future scholarship on Jacobs' life and times.
This bibliography of writing by and about African-American women
provides a much needed research tool to scholars and researchers in
the field. The bibliography lists writing by African-American women
whose earliest publication appeared before 1910; a supplemental
bibliography lists writing published as of 1911.
"YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on
Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the
United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on
February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council
Chambers, City Hall, Gary, Indiana, then and there to testify
touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee, and not to
depart without leave of said committee." So began a decade of
hardship for Ed and Jean Yellin and their three young children as
the repressive weight of the U.S. government, caught up in the
throes of McCarthyism, crashed down upon their careers, their daily
household budget, and their relationships to colleagues, neighbors,
and their country. In Contempt is a faithful, factual testament to
the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in our evolving
democracy-and a loving reconstruction of what it meant to be
labeled "unAmerican" for defending the Constitution.
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