Table Of Contents:
Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xxv
The Text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1(160)
Contexts

Contemporary Responses

Linda, the Slave Girl (Liberator, 21 January 1861) 161(1)

William C. Nell

Unsigned Announcement From the Anti-Slavery Bugle (9 February 1861) 162(1)

Linda (Liberator, 18 February 1861) 162(1)

William C. Nell

Letter to John Greenleaf Whittier (4 April 1861) 163(2)

Lydia Maria Child

Unsigned Announcement Linda (Christian Recorder, 11 January 1862) 165(2)

Selections from Jacobs's Other Writings

Letter from a Fugitive Slave (New York Tribune, 21 June 1853) 167(22)

Harriet Jacobs

Letter to Amy Post (25 June 1853) 170(1)

Cruelty to Slave (New York Tribune, 25 July 1853) 171(1)

Letter to Amy Post (9 October 1853?) 172(1)

Letter to Amy Post (18 June 1861) 173(1)

Life among the Contrabands (Liberator, 5 September 1862) 174(6)

Letter from Mrs. Jacobs (Black Abolitionist Papers, 13 April 1863) 180(2)

Letter from Teachers of the Freedmen (National Anti-Slavery Standard, 16 April 1864) 182(3)

Jacobs School (Freedmen's Record, March 1865) 185(1)

From Savannah (Freedmen's Record, 18 January 1866) 186(1)

Savannah Freedmen's Orphan Asylum (Anti-Slavery Reporter, 3 March 1868) 187(2)

Jacobs's World

From The Convalescent (1859) 189(4)

Nathaniel Willis

Letters to Harriet Jacobs (13 August 1860; 27 September 1860) 193(2)

Lydia Maria Child

Jacobs (Linda) School, Alexandria, VA (February 1865) 195(2)

Freedmen's Record

School at Alexandria (September 1865) 196(1)

A Milestone of Progress (December 1865) 196(1)

Eulogy 197(6)

Reverend Francis J. Grimke
Criticism

Written by Herself: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative 203(6)

Jean Fagan Yellin

Spiritual Purity and Sexual Shame: Religious Themes in the Writings of Harriet Jacobs 209(13)

Ann Taves

Form and Ideology in Three Slave Narratives 222(14)

Valerie Smith

The Girls Who Became the Women: Childhood Memories in the Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Mary Church Terrell, and Anne Moody 236(17)

Nellie Y. McKay

Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Our Nig, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Beloved 253(25)

Harryette Mullen

Loopholes of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative and the Critique of Agency in Foucault 278(16)

Michelle Burnham

Three Southern Women and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race, Class, and Gender in the Slave South 294(18)

Nell Irvin Painter

Resisting Incidents 312(18)

Frances Smith Foster

Reading and Redemption in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 330(23)

Sandra Gunning

The Heady Political Life of Compassion 353(12)

Elizabeth V. Spelman

``The laws were laid down to me anew'': Harriet Jacobs and the Reframing of Legal Fictions 365(22)

Christina Accomando
A Chronology 387(2)

Harriet Jacobs
Selected Bibliography 389