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Incidents i14 the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full—length narra-tire written by a former woman s]ave in America．It tellS the story of Harriet lacobs’S early 1ire as a slave in North Carolina；her fugitive years in Neve York，Boston，and Rochester,where she became an abolition activist；and her struggle for freedom，hard won in 1852．This text is a reprint of the 186l first edition．with explanatory annotations and an introduction bv Nellie Y.cKav and Frances Smith Foster．
“Contexts”includes contemporary responses to Incideuts in the Life of a Slave Girf by William C．Nell and Lvdia Maria Child．among others；twelye related letters and articles by Jacobs published in newspapers during the period from 1853 to 1868：and documents tracing Iacobs’S Iire and achievements as a free woman，including her establishment of a school in Alexandria，Virginia．
“Criftcism”collects eleven important assessments of the work by Jean Fagan Yellin，Ann Taves，Valerie Smith，Nellie Y McKay,Harwette Mullen，Michelle Burnham，NelI Irvin Painter,
“Contexts”includes contemporary responses to Incideuts in the Life of a Slave Girf by William C．Nell and Lvdia Maria Child．among others；twelye related letters and articles by Jacobs published in newspapers during the period from 1853 to 1868：and documents tracing Iacobs’S Iire and achievements as a free woman，including her establishment of a school in Alexandria，Virginia．
“Criftcism”collects eleven important assessments of the work by Jean Fagan Yellin，Ann Taves，Valerie Smith，Nellie Y McKay,Harwette Mullen，Michelle Burnham，NelI Irvin Painter,