Autore: Jean Fagan Yellin

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 tes …

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 …

`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 n …

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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 slav …