Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911

Book Overview

Harriet Jacobs's famous autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa, who had been taken away to the North by her white father. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters. In this annotated correspondence, new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299311805
• ISBN13: 9780299311803
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"