Reprint. Originally published. Boston: Published for the author, 1861.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

12 Tears of a Slave: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative that was published in 1861 by Harriet Ann Jacobs, using the pen name…

While I advised him to be good and forgiving I was not unconscious of the beam in my own eye. It was the very knowledge of my own shortcomings that…

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This text is a guide to living it up in the senior years, addressing the many issues faced by older women. It covers such areas as: reinventing yourself in the…

Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from the horrors of slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs’ single…

One of the most memorable slave narratives, Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl illustrates the overreaching evil and pervasive depravity of the institution of slavery. This edition…