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Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs

• Harriet Jacobs
  This page offers a contextual introduction, a timeline, images and a range of resources for teachers and students.
  
  
• Africans in America: Harriet Jacobs
  This PBS site offers useful information on Jacobs plus useful contextual links.
  
  
• Resources Related to Harriet Jacobs' Life & Times
  An excellent series of web and print resources related to Jacobs and 19th-century African American literature.
  
  
• Images related to Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  This page offers a number of useful images related to the narrative and its social and historical context.
  
  
• Electronic Text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection offers an electronic version of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
  
  
• Harriet Jacobs: On-Line Resources
  Trudy Mercer's excellent collection of diverse web resources related to Jacobs and her narrative. This is one of the strongest collections of web resources related to 19th century African American women.
  
  
• Harriet Jacobs: Writer and Activist.
  Site features original essays, a publishing history of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a chronology, personal letters, bibliographies, and online resources. Created, produced, and maintained by Trudy Mercer.
  
  
• African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth-Century
  New York Public Library Digital Library Collections Digital Schomburg series offers electronic versions of numerous texts by 19th century African American women writers.
  
  
• Bibliography of African-American Literature to 1925
  A collection of helpful resources for the study of African American literature before 1925
  
  
• Overview of the Slave Narrative
  This site provides useful context for understanding the slave narrative.
  
  
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
  A useful site for understanding the history and context of slave narratives.
  
  
• Slavery in America
  This site is an excellent resource for students and teachers and provides useful information, images and context for understanding the history of slavery in the US.
  
  
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
  A Site from the American Folklife Center (Library of Congress) provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives in interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975.
  
  
• "The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom"
  "The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom" chronicles the movement from slavery to freedom.
  
  
• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  An excellent site to accompany the UN's declaration of 2004 the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition
  
  
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
  The website for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center offers a wide range of resources.
  
  

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