Harriet Jacobs : a life /
Jean Fagan Yellin.
- New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2004.
- xxi, 394 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-376) and index.
ONE. HATTY. PRIVATE DREAMS OF FREEDOM AND A HOME : 1. So Fondly Shielded -- 2. My Puny Arm Felt Strong -- 3. A Determined Will -- 4. Cunning Against Cunning -- 5. Sometimes Like Freedom. TWO. LINDA. PUBLIC DREAMS OF FREEDOM AND A HOME : 6. A Great Millstone Lifted -- 7. My Mind Became Enlightened -- 8. Let Me Come Before the World -- 9. The Slave's Own Story. THREE. MRS. JACOBS. PUBLIC DEMANDS FOR FREEDOM AND HOMES : 10. Spared for this Work -- 11. Justice Will Come -- 12. Marching Without a Lance -- 13. No Cloudless Happiness -- 14. Remember the Poor -- 15. Unshaken by the Wind. Epilogue.
0465092888 (hardcover)
2003017256
Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897.
Slaves--United States--Biography. Women slaves--United States--Biography. African American women authors--Biography. African American women social reformers--Biography.