"The related documents are among the highlights of this edition. They make Jacobs seem more alive as a human being, and they place her into a constellation of other abolitionists and connect her to her time and place."
— Michael Sherfy, Western Illinois University
"Fleischner’s edition of Jacobs’s narrative is the one to adopt. It has all of the virtues of an authoritative text and the benefits of her definitive biography with useful supplemental sources (especially the narrative by Jacobs’s brother) and Fleischner’s own solid introduction to and commentary on Jacobs’s life, text, and times."
— Brett Mizelle, California State University-Long Beach
"Fleischner’s introduction does an excellent job of suggesting a wide range of interpretive approaches to Harriet Jacobs’s narrative. Especially impressive is the way Fleischner reaches beyond the narrative’s central issues of slavery and the exploitation of women to address the vital yet only slightly less immediate issues of politics, religion, and law."
— D. Michael Bottoms, George Mason University