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Name: Harriet Jacobs
Author: Jean Fagan Yellin

Jean Fagan Yellin’s biography of Harriet Jacobs presents a detailed account of Jacobs’s experiences, including the years she spent hiding in her grandmother’s attic from her abusive master. The book situates Jacobs’s personal story within the broader contexts of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the struggle for social reform. Yellin’s scholarship restores a life marked by sorrow and triumph, shedding light on eighteenth and nineteenth‑century American history through the lens of a pioneering African‑American woman.

First publish date: 2003

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Jean Fagan Yellin

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