Foreword
Preface
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: A New Voice for Freedom
Jacobs’s Early Life
What Really Happened?
Other Dominant Themes
The Power of the Pen
Pseudonyms of Key Figures in Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl, Written by Herself
PART TWO: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written
by Herself. Edited by L. Maria Child
PART THREE. RELATED DOCUMENTS
1. American Beacon, Advertisement for the Capture of Harriet
Jacobs, July 4, 1835
2. Lydia Maria Child, Charity Bowery, 1844
3. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, 1852?
4. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, April 4, 1853
5. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, March 1854
6. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Amy Post, June 21, 1857
7. Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Harriet Jacobs, August 13, 1860
8. Weekly Anglo-African, Review of Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl, April 13, 1861
9. John S. Jacobs, A True Tale of Slavery, 1861
10. Harriet Jacobs, Life Among the Contrabands, 1862
11. Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Ednah Dow Cheney, April 25, 1867
Appendixes
A Harriet Jacobs Chronology (1813-1897)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index