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…

Are you aging OUTRAGEOUSLY and COURAGEOUSLY? In ABC’s for Seniors, Dr. Ruth Jacobs presents the essentials that enable a reader to harvest life fully for creative, healthy, successful, vigorous, and…

The ordeals of two famous African Americans This special Leonaur edition combines the account of Harriet Ann Jacobs with that of Frederick Douglass. They were contemporaries and African Americans of…

A groundbreaking new edition of Incidents that puts into context Harriet Jacobs' achievements as a literary artist and social activist.

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…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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