Harriet Jacobs:  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Further Reading

Articles

• Cutter, Martha J. “Dismantling ‘The Master’s House’: Critical Literacy in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Callaloo 19, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 209–225.
• Miller, Jennie. “Harriet Jacobs and the ‘Double Burden’ of American Slavery.” International Social Science Review 78 (June 2003): 31–41.

Books

• Federal Writers’ Project. North Carolina Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in North Carolina from Interviews with Former Slaves. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 2006.
• Fisch, Audrey, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Garfield, Deborah M., and Rafia Zafar, eds. Harriet Jacobs and ”Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl“: New Critical Essays. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Heglar, Charles J. Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
• Johnson, Yvonne. The Voices of African American Women: The Use of Narrative and Authorial Voice in the Works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
• Shockley, Ann Allen, ed. Afro-American Women Writers, 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide. New Haven, Conn.: Meridian Books, 1989.
• Taylor, Yuval, ed. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.
• Washington, Mary Helen. “Meditations on History: The Slave Narrative of Linda Brent.” In Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860–1960, ed. Mary Helen Washington. New York: Doubleday, 1987.
• Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs: A Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Basic Civitas Books, 2004.
• ———, ed. The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Web Sites

• Child, Lydia Maria. Introduction to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Web site. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html.
• “Harriet Jacobs.” Harriet Jacobs Web site. http://www.harrietjacobs.org.
• Lowther, George W. Appendix to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Web site. http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html.